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Adversarial machine learning is a well-studied field of research where an adversary causes predictable errors in a machine learning algorithm through precise manipulation of the input. Numerous techniques have been proposed to harden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Pratik Vaishnavi , Kevin Eykholt , Atul Prakash , Amir Rahmati

Anonymity systems like Tor are vulnerable to Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks, where a local passive eavesdropper infers the victim's activity. Current WF attacks based on deep learning classifiers have successfully overcome numerous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shawn Shan , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

To perform adversarial attacks in the physical world, many studies have proposed adversarial camouflage, a method to hide a target object by applying camouflage patterns on 3D object surfaces. For obtaining optimal physical adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Naufal Suryanto , Yongsu Kim , Hyoeun Kang , Harashta Tatimma Larasati , Youngyeo Yun , Thi-Thu-Huong Le , Hunmin Yang , Se-Yoon Oh , Howon Kim

This work introduces a novel data augmentation method for few-shot website fingerprinting (WF) attack where only a handful of training samples per website are available for deep learning model optimization. Moving beyond earlier WF methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Mantun Chen , Yongjun Wang , Zhiquan Qin , Xiatian Zhu

Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks aim to infer which websites a user is visiting by analyzing traffic patterns, thereby compromising user anonymity. Although this technique has been demonstrated to be effective in controlled experimental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yali Yuan , Weiyi Zou , Guang Cheng

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in Computer Vision (CV) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs), namely imperceptible perturbations added maliciously to cause wrong classification results. Such variability has been a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yi Zeng , Han Qiu , Gerard Memmi , Meikang Qiu

This paper advances the state of the art by proposing the first comprehensive analysis and experimental evaluation of adversarial learning attacks to wireless deep learning systems. We postulate a series of adversarial attacks, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Francesco Restuccia , Salvatore D'Oro , Amani Al-Shawabka , Bruno Costa Rendon , Kaushik Chowdhury , Stratis Ioannidis , Tommaso Melodia

Website Fingerprinting (WF) is considered a major threat to the anonymity of Tor users (and other anonymity systems). While state-of-the-art WF techniques have claimed high attack accuracies, e.g., by leveraging Deep Neural Networks (DNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Alireza Bahramali , Ardavan Bozorgi , Amir Houmansadr

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. However, recent studies have shown that adversarial perturbations can severely compromise the performance of such models. To address this vulnerability,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Shilian Zheng , Xiaoxiang Wu , Luxin Zhang , Keqiang Yue , Peihan Qi , Zhijin Zhao

Adversarial examples have revealed the vulnerability of deep learning models and raised serious concerns about information security. The transfer-based attack is a hot topic in black-box attacks that are practical to real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jian-Wei Li , Wen-Ze Shao

While DeepFake applications are becoming popular in recent years, their abuses pose a serious privacy threat. Unfortunately, most related detection algorithms to mitigate the abuse issues are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xiangtao Meng , Li Wang , Shanqing Guo , Lei Ju , Qingchuan Zhao

The Tor network provides users with strong anonymity by routing their internet traffic through multiple relays. While Tor encrypts traffic and hides IP addresses, it remains vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks such as the website…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yuwen Cui , Guangjing Wang , Khanh Vu , Kai Wei , Kehan Shen , Zhengyuan Jiang , Xiao Han , Ning Wang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

Adversarial robustness evaluation faces a critical challenge as new defense paradigms emerge that can exploit limitations in existing assessment methods. This paper reveals that Dummy Classes-based defenses, which introduce an additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yunrui Yu , Xuxiang Feng , Pengda Qin , Pengyang Wang , Kafeng Wang , Cheng-zhong Xu , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Several studies have shown that the network traffic that is generated by a visit to a website over Tor reveals information specific to the website through the timing and sizes of network packets. By capturing traffic traces between users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Vera Rimmer , Davy Preuveneers , Marc Juarez , Tom Van Goethem , Wouter Joosen

Web Application Firewalls are crucial for protecting web applications against a wide range of cyber threats. Traditional Web Application Firewalls often struggle to effectively distinguish between malicious and legitimate traffic, leading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ahmed Sameh , Sahar Selim

Deep neural networks are susceptible to adversarial attacks, which pose a significant threat to their security and reliability in real-world applications. The most notable adversarial attacks are transfer-based attacks, where an adversary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Kunyu Wang , Juluan Shi , Wenxuan Wang

Website fingerprinting enables an attacker to infer which web page a client is browsing through encrypted or anonymized network connections. We present a new website fingerprinting technique based on random decision forests and evaluate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Jamie Hayes , George Danezis

The challenge of WAD (web attack detection) is growing as hackers continuously refine their methods to evade traditional detection. Deep learning models excel in handling complex unknown attacks due to their strong generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lijia Shi , Shihao Dong

Signature-based malware detectors have proven to be insufficient as even a small change in malignant executable code can bypass these signature-based detectors. Many machine learning-based models have been proposed to efficiently detect a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Yash Jakhotiya , Heramb Patil , Jugal Rawlani , Sunil B. Mane

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples with small perturbations. Adversarial defense thus has been an important means which improves the robustness of DNNs by defending against adversarial examples. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Jincheng Li , Jiezhang Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jian Chen , Mingkui Tan