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Backdoor attacks against CNNs represent a new threat against deep learning systems, due to the possibility of corrupting the training set so to induce an incorrect behaviour at test time. To avoid that the trainer recognises the presence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Benedetta Tondi

Backdoor attacks are a kind of emergent security threat in deep learning. After being injected with a backdoor, a deep neural model will behave normally on standard inputs but give adversary-specified predictions once the input contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yangyi Chen , Fanchao Qi , Hongcheng Gao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have achieved strong performance in many real-world applications, yet targeted backdoor poisoning on heterogeneous graphs remains less studied. We consider backdoor attacks for heterogeneous node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Honglin Gao , Lan Zhao , Junhao Ren , Xiang Li , Gaoxi Xiao

Recently, transformer architecture has demonstrated its significance in both Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) tasks. Though other network models are known to be vulnerable to the backdoor attack, which embeds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Peizhuo Lv , Hualong Ma , Jiachen Zhou , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen , Shengzhi Zhang , Yunfei Yang

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

Backdoor attacks have been shown to impose severe threats to real security-critical scenarios. Although previous works can achieve high attack success rates, they either require access to victim models which may significantly reduce their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jingke Zhao , Zan Wang , Yongwei Wang , Lanjun Wang

Outsourced deep neural networks have been demonstrated to suffer from patch-based trojan attacks, in which an adversary poisons the training sets to inject a backdoor in the obtained model so that regular inputs can be still labeled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Ying He , Zhili Shen , Chang Xia , Jingyu Hua , Wei Tong , Sheng Zhong

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers embed hidden backdoors in the DNN model by injecting a few poisoned examples into the training dataset. While extensive efforts have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Zhicai Wang , Zepu Lu , Qingyong Hu

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks, which could be easily introduced to the training set prior to model training. Recent work has focused on investigating backdoor attacks on natural images or toy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Munachiso Nwadike , Takumi Miyawaki , Esha Sarkar , Michail Maniatakos , Farah Shamout

Contrastive learning (CL) pre-trains general-purpose encoders using an unlabeled pre-training dataset, which consists of images or image-text pairs. CL is vulnerable to data poisoning based backdoor attacks (DPBAs), in which an attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Jinghuai Zhang , Hongbin Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Real-world backdoor attacks often require poisoned datasets to be stored and transmitted before being used to compromise deep learning systems. However, in the era of big data, the inevitable use of lossy compression poses a fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Qian Li , Yunuo Chen , Yuntian Chen

Object detection is the foundation of various critical computer-vision tasks such as segmentation, object tracking, and event detection. To train an object detector with satisfactory accuracy, a large amount of data is required. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hua Ma , Yinshan Li , Yansong Gao , Zhi Zhang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Anmin Fu , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Nepal Surya , Derek Abbott

Contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP) has been found to be vulnerable to poisoning backdoor attacks where the adversary can achieve an almost perfect attack success rate on CLIP models by poisoning only 0.01\% of the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Hanxun Huang , Sarah Erfani , Yige Li , Xingjun Ma , James Bailey

Deep learning models have recently shown to be vulnerable to backdoor poisoning, an insidious attack where the victim model predicts clean images correctly but classifies the same images as the target class when a trigger poison pattern is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Alvin Chan , Yew-Soon Ong

Deep learning-based face restoration models, increasingly prevalent in smart devices, have become targets for sophisticated backdoor attacks. These attacks, through subtle trigger injection into input face images, can lead to unexpected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Zhenbo Song , Wenhao Gao , Zhenyuan Zhang , Jianfeng Lu

Recent research shows deep neural networks are vulnerable to different types of attacks, such as adversarial attack, data poisoning attack and backdoor attack. Among them, backdoor attack is the most cunning one and can occur in almost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jie Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Qidong Huang , Jing Liao , Weiming Zhang , Huamin Feng , Gang Hua , Nenghai Yu

Recent advances in natural language processing and the increased use of large language models have exposed new security vulnerabilities, such as backdoor attacks. Previous backdoor attacks require input manipulation after model distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Minkyoo Song , Hanna Kim , Jaehan Kim , Youngjin Jin , Seungwon Shin

Although Deep Neural Network (DNN) has led to unprecedented progress in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, research shows that deep models are extremely vulnerable to backdoor attacks. The existing backdoor attacks mainly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xiaoyi Chen , Yinpeng Dong , Zeyu Sun , Shengfang Zhai , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu

During the generation of invisible backdoor attack poisoned data, the feature space transformation operation tends to cause the loss of some poisoned features and weakens the mapping relationship between source images with triggers and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui Xia , Xiugui Yang , Xiangyun Qian , Rui Zhang

Backdoor attacks inject poisoned samples into the training data, resulting in the misclassification of the poisoned input during a model's deployment. Defending against such attacks is challenging, especially for real-world black-box models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yucheng Shi , Mengnan Du , Xuansheng Wu , Zihan Guan , Jin Sun , Ninghao Liu