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The unprecedented availability of training data fueled the rapid development of powerful neural networks in recent years. However, the need for such large amounts of data leads to potential threats such as poisoning attacks: adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Luigi V. Mancini

This paper reveals a data bias issue that can severely affect the performance while conducting a machine learning model for malicious URL detection. We describe how such bias can be identified using interpretable machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 YunDa Tsai , Cayon Liow , Yin Sheng Siang , Shou-De Lin

Machine learning algorithms are used to construct a mathematical model for a system based on training data. Such a model is capable of making highly accurate predictions without being explicitly programmed to do so. These techniques have a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Cato Pauling , Michael Gimson , Muhammed Qaid , Ahmad Kida , Basel Halak

DDoS attacks have become a major threat to the security of IoT devices and can cause severe damage to the network infrastructure. IoT devices suffer from the inherent problem of resource constraints and are therefore susceptible to such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sandipan Dey , Payal Santosh Kate , Vatsala Upadhyay , Abhishek Vaish

Data poisoning and backdoor attacks manipulate training data in order to cause models to fail during inference. A recent survey of industry practitioners found that data poisoning is the number one concern among threats ranging from model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Avi Schwarzschild , Micah Goldblum , Arjun Gupta , John P Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

As one kind of distributed machine learning technique, federated learning enables multiple clients to build a model across decentralized data collaboratively without explicitly aggregating the data. Due to its ability to break data silos,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Junchuan Lianga , Rong Wang , Chaosheng Feng , Chin-Chen Chang

Data poisoning is an adversarial scenario where an attacker feeds a specially crafted sequence of samples to an online model in order to subvert learning. We introduce Lethean Attack, a novel data poisoning technique that induces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Eyal Perry

Nowadays, collaborative filtering recommender systems have been widely deployed in many commercial companies to make profit. Neighbourhood-based collaborative filtering is common and effective. To date, despite its effectiveness, there has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Chen , Yangjun Xu , Fenfang Xie , Min Huang , Zibin Zheng

Security exploits can include cyber threats such as computer programs that can disturb the normal behavior of computer systems (viruses), unsolicited e-mail (spam), malicious software (malware), monitoring software (spyware), attempting to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage , Mumtaz Abdul Hameed

Learning in adversarial settings is becoming an important task for application domains where attackers may inject malicious data into the training set to subvert normal operation of data-driven technologies. Feature selection has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Huang Xiao , Battista Biggio , Gavin Brown , Giorgio Fumera , Claudia Eckert , Fabio Roli

Backdoor attacks pose a serious security threat for training neural networks as they surreptitiously introduce hidden functionalities into a model. Such backdoors remain silent during inference on clean inputs, evading detection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Lukas Struppek , Martin B. Hentschel , Clifton Poth , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

This review paper takes a comprehensive look at malicious attacks against FL, categorizing them from new perspectives on attack origins and targets, and providing insights into their methodology and impact. In this survey, we focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xianghua Xie , Chen Hu , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng

High-performance Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in many real-world applications e.g., cloud prediction APIs. Recent advances in model functionality stealing attacks via black-box access (i.e., inputs in, predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most harmful threats in today's Internet, disrupting the availability of essential services. The challenge of DDoS detection is the combination of attack approaches coupled with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin , Stuart Millar , Sandra Scott-Hayward , Jesus Martinez-del-Rincon , Domenico Siracusa

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remain a serious threat to online infrastructure, often bypassing detection by altering traffic in subtle ways. We present a method using hive-plot sequences of network data and a 3D…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Landon Bragg , Nathan Dorsey , Josh Prior , John Ajit , Ben Kim , Nate Willis , Pablo Rivas

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

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attack wherein multiple compromised computer systems flood the bandwidth and/or resources of a target, such as a server, website or other network resource, and cause a denial of service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Rajat Tandon

Data Poisoning (DP) is an effective attack that causes trained classifiers to misclassify their inputs. DP attacks significantly degrade a classifier's accuracy by covertly injecting attack samples into the training set. Broadly applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Xi Li , David J. Miller , Zhen Xiang , George Kesidis

Federated learning security research has predominantly focused on backdoor threats from a minority of malicious clients that intentionally corrupt model updates. This paper challenges this paradigm by investigating a more pervasive and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Haodong Zhao , Jinming Hu , Gongshen Liu

This paper presents the detection of DDoS attacks in IoT networks using machine learning models. Their rapid growth has made them highly susceptible to various forms of cyberattacks, many of whose security procedures are implemented in an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sushil Shakya , Robert Abbas