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Over the years, adversarial attempts against critical services have become more effective and sophisticated in launching low-profile attacks. This trend has always been concerning. However, an even more alarming trend is the increasing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Javad Zandi , Lalchandra Rampersaud , Amin Kharraz

While the digitization of power distribution grids brings many benefits, it also introduces new vulnerabilities for cyber-attacks. To maintain secure operations in the emerging threat landscape, detecting and implementing countermeasures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Ömer Sen , Dennis van der Velde , Sebastian N. Peters , Martin Henze

Physical layer security (PLS) is seen as the means to enhance physical layer trustworthiness in 6G. This work provides a proof-of-concept for one of the most mature PLS technologies, i.e., secret key generation (SKG) from wireless fading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Amitha Mayya , Miroslav Mitev , Arsenia Chorti , Gerhard Fettweis

In this study, we introduce a novel unsupervised countermeasure for smart grid power systems, based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). Given the pivotal role of smart grid systems (SGSs) in urban life, their security is of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Mohammad Adiban , Arash Safari , Giampiero Salvi

Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) are widely used in critical infrastructures that face various cyberattacks causing physical damage. With the increasing integration of the ICSs and information technology (IT), ensuring the security of ICSs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Navid Aftabi , Dan Li , Ph. D. , Thomas Sharkey , Ph. D

Learning-enabled controllers used in cyber-physical systems (CPS) are known to be susceptible to adversarial attacks. Such attacks manifest as perturbations to the states generated by the controller's environment in response to its actions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zikang Xiong , Joe Eappen , He Zhu , Suresh Jagannathan

Computer systems are facing biggest threat in the form of malicious data which causing denial of service, information theft, financial and credibility loss etc. No defense technique has been proved successful in handling these threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Muhammad Imran Shafi , Muhammad Akram , Sikandar Hayat , Imran Sohail

In many security applications of cyber-physical systems, a system designer must guarantee that critical missions are satisfied against attacks in the sensors and actuators of the CPS. Traditional security design of CPSs often assume that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Sumukha Udupa , Ahmed Hemida , Charles A. Kamhoua , Jie Fu

In this paper, a constrained attack-resilient estimation algorithm (CARE) is developed for stochastic cyber-physical systems. The proposed CARE can simultaneously estimate the compromised system states and attack signals. It has improved…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Wenbin Wan , Hunmin Kim , Naira Hovakimyan , Petros Voulgaris

Intrusion detection is vital for securing computer networks against malicious activities. Traditional methods struggle to detect complex patterns and anomalies in network traffic effectively. To address this issue, we propose a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Samia Saidane , Francesco Telch , Kussai Shahin , Fabrizio Granelli

Federated learning, an innovative network architecture designed to safeguard user privacy, is gaining widespread adoption in the realm of technology. However, given the existence of backdoor attacks in federated learning, exploring the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Weida Xu , Yang Xu , Sicong Zhang

The integration of information and physical systems in modern power grids has heightened vulnerabilities to False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs), threatening the secure operation of power cyber-physical systems (CPS). This paper reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoyong Bo

Malicious attacks on modern autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPSs) can leverage information about the system dynamics and noise characteristics to hide while hijacking the system toward undesired states. Given attacks attempting to hide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Paul J. Bonczek , Shijie Gao , Nicola Bezzo

An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a software that monitors a single or a network of computers for malicious activities (attacks) that are aimed at stealing or censoring information or corrupting network protocols. Most techniques used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Mahdi Zamani , Mahnush Movahedi

We study a game-theoretic model of the interactions between a Cyber-Physical System's (CPS) operator (the defender) against an attacker who launches stepping-stone attacks to reach critical assets within the CPS. We consider that, in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Pradeep Sharma Oruganti , Parinaz Naghizadeh , Qadeer Ahmed

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) consist of sensors, actuators, and controllers all communicating over a network; if any subset becomes compromised, an attacker could cause significant damage. With access to data logs and a model of the CPS,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yuqi Chen , Christopher M. Poskitt , Jun Sun

Industry 4.0 envisions a fully automated manufacturing environment, in which computerized manufacturing equipment--Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)--performs all tasks. These machines are open to a variety of cyber and cyber-physical attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Bikash Ranabhat , Joseph Clements , Jacob Gatlin , Kuang-Ting Hsiao , Mark Yampolskiy

Resilience in cyber-physical systems (CPS) is the fundamental ability to maintain safety and critical functionality despite adverse "perturbations," which includes security attacks, environmental disruptions, and hardware or software…

The integration of cyber technologies (computing and communication) with the physical world gives rise to complex systems referred to as Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), for example, manufacturing, transportation, smart grid, and water…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Jianying Zhou

Insider threats are the cyber attacks from within the trusted entities of an organization. Lack of real-world data and issue of data imbalance leave insider threat analysis an understudied research area. To mitigate the effect of skewed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 R G Gayathri , Atul Sajjanhar , Yong Xiang , Xingjun Ma