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Data poisoning attacks compromise the integrity of machine-learning models by introducing malicious training samples to influence the results during test time. In this work, we investigate backdoor data poisoning attack on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mahesh Subedar , Nilesh Ahuja , Ranganath Krishnan , Ibrahima J. Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

We introduce camouflaged data poisoning attacks, a new attack vector that arises in the context of machine unlearning and other settings when model retraining may be induced. An adversary first adds a few carefully crafted points to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jimmy Z. Di , Jack Douglas , Jayadev Acharya , Gautam Kamath , Ayush Sekhari

Targeted data poisoning attacks manipulate model predictions on specific test samples by injecting malicious data into training. Yet existing evaluations report average attack success rates over randomly selected targets, obscuring true…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 William Xu , Chenyu Zhang , Yihan Wang , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Zuoqiu Liu , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu , Yiwei Lu

The evolution of mobile malware poses a serious threat to smartphone security. Today, sophisticated attackers can adapt by maximally sabotaging machine-learning classifiers via polluting training data, rendering most recent machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Sen Chen , Minhui Xue , Lingling Fan , Shuang Hao , Lihua Xu , Haojin Zhu , Bo Li

Machine learning is data hungry; the more data a model has access to in training, the more likely it is to perform well at inference time. Distinct parties may want to combine their local data to gain the benefits of a model trained on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Jamie Hayes , Olga Ohrimenko

Machine learning (ML) malware detectors rely heavily on crowd-sourced AntiVirus (AV) labels, with platforms like VirusTotal serving as a trusted source of malware annotations. But what if attackers could manipulate these labels to classify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Tianwei Lan , Luca Demetrio , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Yufei Han , Simone Aonzo

Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cong Liao , Haoti Zhong , Anna Squicciarini , Sencun Zhu , David Miller

We propose a novel clustering mechanism based on an incompatibility property between subsets of data that emerges during model training. This mechanism partitions the dataset into subsets that generalize only to themselves, i.e., training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Charles Jin , Melinda Sun , Martin Rinard

In a poisoning attack, an adversary with control over a small fraction of the training data attempts to select that data in a way that induces a corrupted model that misbehaves in favor of the adversary. We consider poisoning attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Fnu Suya , Saeed Mahloujifar , Anshuman Suri , David Evans , Yuan Tian

We consider data poisoning attacks, a class of adversarial attacks on machine learning where an adversary has the power to alter a small fraction of the training data in order to make the trained classifier satisfy certain objectives. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yizhen Wang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Data poisoning causes misclassification of test time target examples by injecting maliciously crafted samples in the training data. Existing defenses are often effective only against a specific type of targeted attack, significantly degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yu Yang , Tian Yu Liu , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Membership inference tests aim to determine whether a particular data point was included in a language model's training set. However, recent works have shown that such tests often fail under the strict definition of membership based on…

The extensive damage caused by malware requires anti-malware systems to be constantly improved to prevent new threats. The current trend in malware detection is to employ machine learning models to aid in the classification process. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Marcus Carpenter , Chunbo Luo

While machine learning (ML) models are being increasingly trusted to make decisions in different and varying areas, the safety of systems using such models has become an increasing concern. In particular, ML models are often trained on data…

Data poisoning attacks -- where an adversary can modify a small fraction of training data, with the goal of forcing the trained classifier to high loss -- are an important threat for machine learning in many applications. While a body of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yizhen Wang , Somesh Jha , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In a \emph{data poisoning attack}, an attacker modifies, deletes, and/or inserts some training examples to corrupt the learnt machine learning model. \emph{Bootstrap Aggregating (bagging)} is a well-known ensemble learning method, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Deep learning models have recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning, an insidious attack where the victim model predicts clean images correctly but classifies the same images as the target class when a trigger poison pattern is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alvin Chan , Yew-Soon Ong

Data poisoning attacks aim to manipulate the model produced by a learning algorithm by adversarially modifying the training set. We consider differential privacy as a defensive measure against this type of attack. We show that such learners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Yuzhe Ma , Xiaojin Zhu , Justin Hsu

A number of online services nowadays rely upon machine learning to extract valuable information from data collected in the wild. This exposes learning algorithms to the threat of data poisoning, i.e., a coordinate attack in which a fraction…

In recent years, the rise of machine learning (ML) in cybersecurity has brought new challenges, including the increasing threat of backdoor poisoning attacks on ML malware classifiers. For instance, adversaries could inject malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dung Thuy Nguyen , Ngoc N. Tran , Taylor T. Johnson , Kevin Leach