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The surge in counterfeit signatures has inflicted widespread inconveniences and formidable challenges for both individuals and organizations. This groundbreaking research paper introduces SigScatNet, an innovative solution to combat this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Anmol Chokshi , Vansh Jain , Rajas Bhope , Sudhir Dhage

Sybil detection in social networks is a basic security research problem. Structure-based methods have been shown to be promising at detecting Sybils. Existing structure-based methods can be classified into Random Walk (RW)-based methods and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Binghui Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Le Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

We investigate the problem of sybil (fake account) detection in social networks from a graph algorithms perspective, where graph structural information is used to classify users as sybil and benign. We introduce the novel notion of user…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi , Ahad N. Zehmakan

This study explores how robots and generative approaches can be used to mount successful false-acceptance adversarial attacks on signature verification systems. Initially, a convolutional neural network topology and data augmentation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Jordan J. Bird

Restaking protocols expand validator responsibilities beyond consensus, but their security depends on resistance to Sybil attacks. We introduce a formal framework for Sybil-proofness in restaking networks, distinguishing between two types…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Tarun Chitra , Paolo Penna , Manvir Schneider

Decentralized identity frameworks grant users full sovereignty over their digital assets in the Web3 ecosystem. However, allowing arbitrary creation of identifiers makes the system susceptible to Sybil attacks and puts assets at risk when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Rui Song

This paper addresses active re-identification attacks in the context of privacy-preserving social graph publication. Active attacks are those where the adversary can leverage fake accounts, a.k.a. sybil nodes, to enforce structural patterns…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz , Rolando Trujillo-Rasua

In this paper, we explore sensing security in near-field (NF) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) scenarios by exploiting known scatterers in the sensing scene. We propose a location deception (LD) scheme where scatterers are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Jiangong Chen , Xia Lei , Kaitao Meng , Kawon Han , Yuchen Zhang , Christos Masouros , Athina P. Petropulu

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or tamper with data intended for or produced by the legitimate user. In wireless communication systems, these attacks may be detected by relying on features of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Daniel Romero , Peter Gerstoft , Hadi Givehchian , Dinesh Bharadia

Model fingerprint detection has shown promise to trace the provenance of AI-generated images in forensic applications. However, despite the inherent adversarial nature of these applications, existing evaluations rarely consider adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Kai Yao , Marc Juarez

The forthcoming era of massive drone delivery deployment in urban environments raises a need to develop reliable control and monitoring systems. While active solutions, i.e., wireless sharing of a real-time location between air traffic…

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) has made significant progress with the development of pseudo-label-based end-to-end methods. However, many of these methods face challenges due to class imbalance, which hinders the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Purbayan Kar , Vishal Chudasama , Naoyuki Onoe , Pankaj Wasnik

Real-time crowdsourced maps such as Waze provide timely updates on traffic, congestion, accidents and points of interest. In this paper, we demonstrate how lack of strong location authentication allows creation of software-based {\em Sybil…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Gang Wang , Bolun Wang , Tianyi Wang , Ana Nika , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

The evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has increased the connection of personal devices, mainly taking into account the habits and behavior of their owners. These environments demand access control mechanisms to protect them against…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gustavo Oliveira , Agnaldo de Souza Batista , Michele Nogueira , Aldri Santos

Backscatter radio is a promising technology for low-cost and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. The conventional monostatic backscatter radio is constrained by its limited communication range, which restricts its utility in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Junbo Zhang , John Kimionis , Lefteris Kampianakis , Michael S. Eggleston , Jinfeng Du

Backscatter wireless communication is an emerging technique widely used in low-cost and low-power wireless systems, especially in passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. Recently, the requirement of high data rates, data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Qian Yang , Hui-Ming Wang , Yi Zhang , Zhu Han

Being a volunteer-run, distributed anonymity network, Tor is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Little is known about real-world Sybils in the Tor network, and we lack practical tools and methods to expose Sybil attacks. In this work, we develop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Philipp Winter , Roya Ensafi , Karsten Loesing , Nick Feamster

Sybil attacks pose a significant security threat to blockchain ecosystems, particularly in token airdrop events. This paper proposes a novel sybil address identification method based on subgraph feature extraction lightGBM. The method first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qiangqiang Liu , Qian Huang , Frank Fan , Haishan Wu , Xueyan Tang

Multi-target backdoor attacks pose significant security threats to deep neural networks, as they can preset multiple target classes through a single backdoor injection. This allows attackers to control the model to misclassify poisoned…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yangxu Yin , Honglong Chen , Yudong Gao , Peng Sun , Zhishuai Li , Weifeng Liu

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing remains a critical threat to IoT networks, enabling attackers to intercept, modify, or disrupt data transmission by exploiting ARP's lack of authentication. The decentralized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anas Ali , Mubashar Husain , Peter Hans