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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

Assessing the security posture of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critical for protecting essential infrastructure. However, the complexity and scale of these environments make it challenging to identify and prioritize potential attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Lucas Miranda , Carlos Banjar , Daniel Menasche , Anton Kocheturov , Gaurav Srivastava , Tobias Limmer

We introduce the problem of learning-based attacks in a simple abstraction of cyber-physical systems---the case of a discrete-time, linear, time-invariant plant that may be subject to an attack that overrides the sensor readings and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Mohammad Javad Khojasteh , Anatoly Khina , Massimo Franceschetti , Tara Javidi

Cyber-physical control systems, such as industrial control systems (ICS), are increasingly targeted by cyberattacks. Such attacks can potentially cause tremendous damage, affect critical infrastructure or even jeopardize human life when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Sridhar Adepu , Ferdinand Brasser , Luis Garcia , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Saman Zonouz

With the emergence of cyber-attacks on control systems it has become clear that improving the security of control systems is an important task in today's society. We investigate how an attacker that has access to the measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 David Umsonst , Henrik Sandberg

For industrial control systems (ICS), many existing defense solutions focus on detecting attacks only when they make the system behave anomalously. Instead, in this work, we study how to detect attackers who are still in their hiding phase.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Suman Sourav , Binbin Chen

The growing number of cyber-attacks against Industrial Control Systems (ICS) in recent years has elevated security concerns due to the potential catastrophic impact. Considering the complex nature of ICS, detecting a cyber-attack in them is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Sepideh Bahadoripour , Ethan MacDonald , Hadis Karimipour

In this work, we investigate how to make use of model reduction techniques to identify the vulnerability of a closed-loop system, consisting of a plant and a supervisor, that might invite attacks. Here, the system vulnerability refers to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Rong Su

SCADA protocols for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are vulnerable to network attacks such as session hijacking. Hence, research focuses on network anomaly detection based on meta--data (message sizes, timing, command sequence), or on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Amit Kleinmann , Ori Amichay , Avishai Wool , David Tenenbaum , Ofer Bar , Leonid Lev

Stealthy sensor injection attacks are serious threats for industrial plants as they can compromise the plant's integrity without being detected by traditional fault detectors. In this manuscript, we study the possibility of revealing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Cédric Escudero , Michelle S. Chong , Paolo Massioni , Eric Zamaï

Traditional industrial systems, e.g., power plants, water treatment plants, etc., were built to operate highly isolated and controlled capacity. Recently, Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) have been exposed to the Internet for ease of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Masumi Arafune , Sidharth Rajalakshmi , Luigi Jaldon , Zahra Jadidi , Shantanu Pal , Ernest Foo , Nagarajan Venkatachalam

Industrial control systems (ICSs) increasingly rely on digital technologies vulnerable to cyber attacks. Cyber attackers can infiltrate ICSs and execute malicious actions. Individually, each action seems innocuous. But taken together, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Arthur Amorim , Trevor Kann , Max Taylor , Lance Joneckis

Encrypted search schemes have been proposed to address growing privacy concerns. However, several leakage-abuse attacks have highlighted some security vulnerabilities. Recent attacks assumed an attacker's knowledge containing data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Marc Damie , Jean-Benoist Leger , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

Maintenance staff of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is generally not aware about information technologies, and even less about cyber security problems. The scary impact of cyber attacks in the industrial world calls for tools to train…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Vincenzo Giuliano , Valerio Formicola

A class of data integrity attack, known as false data injection (FDI) attack, has been studied with a considerable amount of work. It has shown that with perfect knowledge of the system model and the capability to manipulate a certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Kaikai Pan , André Teixeira , Milos Cvetkovic , Peter Palensky

A design-centric modeling approach was proposed to model the behaviour of the physical processes controlled by Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and study the cascading impact of data-oriented attacks. A threat model was used as input to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Zhongyuan Hau , John H. Castellanos , Jianying Zhou

Recently, neural network (NN)-based methods, including autoencoders, have been proposed for the detection of cyber attacks targeting industrial control systems (ICSs). Such detectors are often retrained, using data collected during system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Moshe Kravchik , Battista Biggio , Asaf Shabtai

In this paper, we consider the problem of attack identification in cyber-physical systems (CPS). Attack identification is often critical for the recovery and performance of a CPS that is targeted by malicious entities, allowing defenders to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

The increasing interaction of industrial control systems (ICSs) with public networks and digital devices introduces new cyber threats to power systems and other critical infrastructure. Recent cyber-physical attacks such as Stuxnet and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Nils Müller , Charalampos Ziras , Kai Heussen

Industrial cyber-physical systems (ICPSs) manage critical infrastructures by controlling the processes based on the "physics" data gathered by edge sensor networks. Recent innovations in ubiquitous computing and communication technologies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Hakan Kayan , Matthew Nunes , Omer Rana , Pete Burnap , Charith Perera