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The ubiquity of deep neural networks (DNNs), cloud-based training, and transfer learning is giving rise to a new cybersecurity frontier in which unsecure DNNs have `structural malware' (i.e., compromised weights and activation pathways). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 N. Benjamin Erichson , Dane Taylor , Qixuan Wu , Michael W. Mahoney

Backdoor attacks pose a significant threat to neural networks, enabling adversaries to manipulate model outputs on specific inputs, often with devastating consequences, especially in critical applications. While backdoor attacks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zhen Guo , Abhinav Kumar , Reza Tourani

The financial industry relies on deep learning models for making important decisions. This adoption brings new danger, as deep black-box models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In computer vision, one can shape the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alina Ermilova , Elizaveta Kovtun , Dmitry Berestnev , Alexey Zaytsev

Deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. An adversary poisons some of the training data in such attacks by installing a trigger. The goal is to make the trained DNN output the attacker's desired class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Recent advancements in deep learning-based compression techniques have surpassed traditional methods. However, deep neural networks remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where pre-defined triggers induce malicious behaviors. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Shijian Lu , Ling-Yu Duan , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Backdoor attack injects malicious behavior to models such that inputs embedded with triggers are misclassified to a target label desired by the attacker. However, natural features may behave like triggers, causing misclassification once…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yingqi Liu , Guangyu Shen , Guanhong Tao , Zhenting Wang , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Backdoor attacks embed hidden associations between triggers and targets in deep neural networks (DNNs), causing them to predict the target when a trigger is present while maintaining normal behavior otherwise. Physical backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yongjie Xu , Guangke Chen , Fu Song , Yuqi Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated effectiveness in various fields. However, DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which inject a unique pattern, called trigger, into the input to cause misclassification to an attack-chosen…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Siyuan Cheng , Guangyu Shen , Kaiyuan Zhang , Guanhong Tao , Shengwei An , Hanxi Guo , Shiqing Ma , Xiangyu Zhang

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models to backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attacks arbitrarily set the trigger mask or use a randomly selected trigger, which restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xueluan Gong , Bowei Tian , Meng Xue , Yuan Wu , Yanjiao Chen , Qian Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced various downstream graph-relevant tasks, encompassing recommender systems, molecular structure prediction, social media analysis, etc. Despite the boosts of GNN, recent research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Xiao Yang , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been very effective in addressing the issue of various graph-structured related tasks. However, recent research has shown that GCNs are vulnerable to a new type of threat called a backdoor attack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiazhu Dai , Zhipeng Xiong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be manipulated to exhibit specific behaviors when exposed to specific trigger patterns, without affecting their performance on benign samples, dubbed \textit{backdoor attack}. Currently, implementing backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ruotong Wang , Hongrui Chen , Zihao Zhu , Li Liu , Baoyuan Wu

Web-scraped datasets are vulnerable to data poisoning, which can be used for backdooring deep image classifiers during training. Since training on large datasets is expensive, a model is trained once and re-used many times. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Benjamin Schneider , Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

When machine learning training is outsourced to third parties, $backdoor$ $attacks$ become practical as the third party who trains the model may act maliciously to inject hidden behaviors into the otherwise accurate model. Until now, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Alexey Kurakin

Recently, advanced NLP models have seen a surge in the usage of various applications. This raises the security threats of the released models. In addition to the clean models' unintentional weaknesses, {\em i.e.,} adversarial attacks, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Lichao Sun

Backdoor attack has emerged as a novel and concerning threat to AI security. These attacks involve the training of Deep Neural Network (DNN) on datasets that contain hidden trigger patterns. Although the poisoned model behaves normally on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Huasong Zhou , Xiaowei Xu , Xiaodong Wang , Leon Bevan Bullock

Recent studies have demonstrated that deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks during the training process. Specifically, the adversaries intend to embed hidden backdoors in DNNs so that malicious model predictions can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Sheng Yang , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Backdoor attacks allow an attacker to embed functionality jeopardizing proper behavior of any algorithm, machine learning or not. This hidden functionality can remain inactive for normal use of the algorithm until activated by the attacker.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Alexander Unnervik , Sébastien Marcel

In recent years, the security issues of artificial intelligence have become increasingly prominent due to the rapid development of deep learning research and applications. Backdoor attack is an attack targeting the vulnerability of deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Peixin Zhang , Jun Sun , Mingtian Tan , Xinyu Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance in various tasks. However, recent works reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Generally, backdoor attack poisons the graph by attaching backdoor triggers and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zhiwei Zhang , Minhua Lin , Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang