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The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in critical applications has introduced severe reliability and security risks, as LLMs remain vulnerable to notorious threats such as hallucinations, jailbreak attacks, and backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shide Zhou , Kailong Wang , Ling Shi , Haoyu Wang

Detection of emerging attacks on network infrastructure is a critical aspect of security management. To meet the growing scale and complexity of modern threats, machine learning (ML) techniques offer valuable tools for automating the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Aleksandra Knapińska , Marija Furdek

Anomaly detection plays a vital role in the security and safety of cyber-physical control systems, and accurately distinguishing between different anomaly types is crucial for system recovery and mitigation. This study proposes a dual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Xixing Xue , Dong Shen , Steven X. Ding , Dong Zhao

Anomaly-based intrusion detection promises to detect novel or unknown attacks on industrial control systems by modeling expected system behavior and raising corresponding alarms for any deviations.As manually creating these behavioral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Dominik Kus , Eric Wagner , Jan Pennekamp , Konrad Wolsing , Ina Berenice Fink , Markus Dahlmanns , Klaus Wehrle , Martin Henze

Interconnected systems such as power systems and chemical processes are often required to satisfy safety properties in the presence of faults and attacks. Verifying safety of these systems, however, is computationally challenging due to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Luyao Niu , Abdullah Al Maruf , Andrew Clark , J. Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

The ever-evolving landscape of attacks, coupled with the growing complexity of ICT systems, makes crafting anomaly-based intrusion detectors (ID) and error detectors (ED) a difficult task: they must accurately detect attacks, and they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tommaso Puccetti , Andrea Ceccarelli

In this paper, we study the impact of stealthy attacks on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) modeled as a stochastic linear system. An attack is characterised by a malicious injection into the system through input, output or both, and it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Tianju Sui , Yilin Mo , Damián Marelli , Ximing Sun , Minyue Fu

Industrial control systems are critical to the operation of industrial facilities, especially for critical infrastructures, such as refineries, power grids, and transportation systems. Similar to other information systems, a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Guangxia Lia , Yulong Shena , Peilin Zhaob , Xiao Lu , Jia Liu , Yangyang Liu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Sensor attacks compromise the reliability of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) by altering sensor outputs with the objective of leading the system to unsafe system states. This paper studies a probabilistic intrusion detection framework based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Parastou Fahim , Samuel Oliveira , Rômulo Meira-Góes

Physical attacks form one of the most severe threats against secure computing platforms. Their criticality arises from their corresponding threat model: By, e.g., passively measuring an integrated circuit's (IC's) environment during a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xhani Marvin Saß , Thilo Krachenfels , Frederik Dermot Pustelnik , Jean-Pierre Seifert , Christian Große , Frank Altmann

In an Industrial Control System (ICS), its complex network of sensors, actuators and controllers have raised security concerns for critical infrastructures and industrial production units. This opinion paper strives to initiate discussion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Jay Prakash , Jianying Zhou

With increasingly sophisticated cyber-adversaries able to access a wider repertoire of mechanisms to implant malware such as ransomware, CPU/GPU keyloggers, and stealthy kernel rootkits, there is an urgent need for techniques to detect and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Farshad Khorrami , Ramesh Karri , Prashanth Krishnamurthy

Industrial control systems (ICS) of critical infrastructure are increasingly connected to the Internet for remote site management at scale. However, cyber attacks against ICS - especially at the communication channels between humanmachine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Taejun Choi , Guangdong Bai , Ryan K L Ko , Naipeng Dong , Wenlu Zhang , Shunyao Wang

Vulnerability of Frontier language models to misuse and jailbreaks has prompted the development of safety measures like filters and alignment training in an effort to ensure safety through robustness to adversarially crafted prompts. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-31 David Glukhov , Ziwen Han , Ilia Shumailov , Vardan Papyan , Nicolas Papernot

Nowadays, every organization might be attacked through its network printers. The malicious exploitation of printing protocols is a dangerous and underestimated threat against every printer today, as highlighted by recent published…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Asaf Hecht , Adi Sagi , Yuval Elovici

Insider threat is one of the most pernicious threat vectors to information and communication technologies (ICT)across the world due to the elevated level of trust and access that an insider is afforded. This type of threat can stem from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Nidhi Rastogi , Qicheng Ma

Short-term load forecasting is an essential task that supports utilities to schedule generating sufficient power for balancing supply and demand, and can become an attractive target for cyber attacks. It has been shown that the power system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Mojtaba Dezvarei , Kevin Tomsovic , Jinyuan Stella Sun , Seddik M. Djouadi

This article considers the design and analysis of multiple moving target defenses for recognizing and isolating attacks on cyber-physical systems. We consider attackers who perform integrity attacks on a set of sensors and actuators in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Paul Griffioen , Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

In the face of large-scale automated social engineering attacks to large online services, fast detection and remediation of compromised accounts are crucial to limit the spread of new attacks and to mitigate the overall damage to users,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Hassan Halawa , Matei Ripeanu , Konstantin Beznosov , Baris Coskun , Meizhu Liu

We consider the problem of securing a given control loop implementation of a cyber-physical system (CPS) in the presence of Man-in-the-Middle attacks on data exchange between plant and controller over a compromised network. To this end,…