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Data poisoning has been proposed as a compelling defense against facial recognition models trained on Web-scraped pictures. Users can perturb images they post online, so that models will misclassify future (unperturbed) pictures. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Evani Radiya-Dixit , Sanghyun Hong , Nicholas Carlini , Florian Tramèr

Most recent studies have shown several vulnerabilities to attacks with the potential to jeopardize the integrity of the model, opening in a few recent years a new window of opportunity in terms of cyber-security. The main interest of this…

Distributed Denial of Service attacks represent an active cybersecurity research problem. Recent research shifted from static rule-based defenses towards AI-based detection and mitigation. This comprehensive survey covers several key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Alexandru Apostu , Silviu Gheorghe , Andrei Hîji , Nicolae Cleju , Andrei Pătraşcu , Cristian Rusu , Radu Ionescu , Paul Irofti

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

Adversarial attacks by malicious actors on machine learning systems, such as introducing poison triggers into training datasets, pose significant risks. The challenge in resolving such an attack arises in practice when only a subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Stefan Schoepf , Jack Foster , Alexandra Brintrup

Cyber-attacks have been one of the deadliest attacks in today's world. One of them is DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services). It is a cyber-attack in which the attacker attacks and makes a network or a machine unavailable to its intended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Aman Rangapur , Tarun Kanakam , Ajith Jubilson

Property inference attacks consider an adversary who has access to the trained model and tries to extract some global statistics of the training data. In this work, we study property inference in scenarios where the adversary can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Melissa Chase , Esha Ghosh , Saeed Mahloujifar

Machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. Prior taxonomies that focus on specific scenarios, e.g., indiscriminate or targeted, have enabled defenses for the corresponding subset of known attacks. Yet, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sanghyun Hong , Varun Chandrasekaran , Yiğitcan Kaya , Tudor Dumitraş , Nicolas Papernot

Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to poisoning attacks, where adversaries corrupt the global aggregation results and cause denial-of-service (DoS). Unlike recent model poisoning attacks that optimize the amplitude of malicious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Hangtao Zhang , Zeming Yao , Leo Yu Zhang , Shengshan Hu , Chao Chen , Alan Liew , Zhetao Li

Machine learning models have achieved great success in supervised learning tasks for end-to-end training, which requires a large amount of labeled data that is not always feasible. Recently, many practitioners have shifted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yiwei Lu , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

These days, deep learning models have achieved great success in multiple fields, from autonomous driving to medical diagnosis. These models have expanded the abilities of artificial intelligence by offering great solutions to complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gopichandh Golla

Machine learning is vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks. It is now well understood that by changing the underlying data distribution, an adversary can poison the model trained with it or introduce backdoors. In this paper we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ilia Shumailov , Zakhar Shumaylov , Dmitry Kazhdan , Yiren Zhao , Nicolas Papernot , Murat A. Erdogdu , Ross Anderson

Backdoor attack has been considered as a serious security threat to deep neural networks (DNNs). Poisoned sample detection (PSD) that aims at filtering out poisoned samples from an untrustworthy training dataset has shown very promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mingda Zhang , Mingli Zhu , Zihao Zhu , Baoyuan Wu

Poisoning-based backdoor attacks pose significant threats to deep neural networks by embedding triggers in training data, causing models to misclassify triggered inputs as adversary-specified labels while maintaining performance on clean…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuchen Shi , Xin Guo , Huajie Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

With the rise of third parties in the machine learning pipeline, the service provider in "Machine Learning as a Service" (MLaaS), or external data contributors in online learning, or the retraining of existing models, the need to ensure the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jialin Wen , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Minhui Xue , Alina Oprea , Haifeng Qian

The growing reliance of intelligent systems on data makes the systems vulnerable to data poisoning attacks. Such attacks could compromise machine learning or deep learning models by disrupting the input data. Previous studies on data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Xin Wang , Feilong Wang , Yuan Hong , R. Tyrrell Rockafellar , Xuegang , Ban

In this paper we introduce an intrusion detection system for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against Domain Name System (DNS). Our system architecture consists of two most important parts: a statistical preprocessor and a neural network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-10 Samaneh Rastegari , M. Iqbal Saripan , Mohd Fadlee A. Rasid

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

Data poisoning attacks (DPAs) are becoming popular as artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, machine learning (ML) algorithms, and deep learning (DL) algorithms in this artificial intelligence (AI) era. Hackers and penetration testers are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shriram KS Pandian , Naresh Kshetri

Continual learning algorithms are typically exposed to untrusted sources that contain training data inserted by adversaries and bad actors. An adversary can insert a small number of poisoned samples, such as mislabeled samples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Huayu Li , Gregory Ditzler