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Traditional Deep Neural Network (DNN) security is mostly related to the well-known adversarial input example attack. Recently, another dimension of adversarial attack, namely, attack on DNN weight parameters, has been shown to be very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Jingtao Li , Fan Yao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Deliang Fan

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advances and are increasingly deployed in critical applications across diverse domains. This growing adoption raises urgent concerns about their security and robustness.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Abeer Matar A. Almalky , Ziyan Wang , Mohaiminul Al Nahian , Li Yang , Adnan Siraj Rakin

Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly common in security applications, such as malware and intrusion detection. However, ML models are often susceptible to evasion attacks, in which an adversary makes changes to the input (such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Liang Tong , Bo Li , Chen Hajaj , Chaowei Xiao , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Adversarial attacks on Neural Network weights, such as the progressive bit-flip attack (PBFA), can cause a catastrophic degradation in accuracy by flipping a very small number of bits. Furthermore, PBFA can be conducted at run time on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Jingtao Li , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Deliang Fan , Chaitali Chakrabarti

In contemporary times, the increasing complexity of the system poses significant challenges to the reliability, trustworthiness, and security of the SACRES. Key issues include the susceptibility to phenomena such as instantaneous voltage…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Enrico Magliano , Alessio Carpegna , Alessadro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

Bit-flip attacks (BFAs) have attracted substantial attention recently, in which an adversary could tamper with a small number of model parameter bits to break the integrity of DNNs. To mitigate such threats, a batch of defense methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jialai Wang , Ziyuan Zhang , Meiqi Wang , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang , Qi Li , Zongpeng Li , Tao Wei , Chao Zhang

The use of Machine Learning (ML) techniques in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) has taken a prominent role in the network security management field, due to the substantial number of sophisticated attacks that often pass undetected through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Mario Di Mauro , Giovanni Galatro , Antonio Liotta

Memristive crossbar arrays (MCA) are emerging as efficient building blocks for in-memory computing and neuromorphic hardware due to their high density and parallel analog matrix-vector multiplication capabilities. However, the physical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Muhammad Faheemur Rahman , Wayne Burleson

Training pipelines for machine learning (ML) based malware classification often rely on crowdsourced threat feeds, exposing a natural attack injection point. In this paper, we study the susceptibility of feature-based ML malware classifiers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Giorgio Severi , Jim Meyer , Scott Coull , Alina Oprea

Biometric data, such as face images, are often associated with sensitive information (e.g medical, financial, personal government records). Hence, a data breach in a system storing such information can have devastating consequences. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Reena Zelenkova , Jack Swallow , M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Mohan Baruwal Chhetri , Seyit Camtepe , Marthie Grobler , Mahathir Almashor

Fault injection attacks on embedded neural network models have been shown as a potent threat. Numerous works studied resilience of models from various points of view. As of now, there is no comprehensive study that would evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jakub Breier , Štefan Kučerák , Xiaolu Hou

Currently, Deep learning and especially Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become a fundamental computational approach applied in a wide range of domains, including some safety-critical applications (e.g., automotive, robotics, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Juan-David Guerrero-Balaguera , Luigi Galasso , Robert Limas Sierra , Matteo Sonza Reorda

Machine learning (ML) has recently created many new success stories. Hence, there is a strong motivation to use ML technology in software-intensive systems, including safety-critical systems. This raises the issue of safety verification of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Hermann Kaindl , Stefan Kramer

Embedded software is developed under the assumption that hardware execution is always correct. Fault attacks break and exploit that assumption. Through the careful introduction of targeted faults, an adversary modifies the control-flow or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Bilgiday Yuce , Patrick Schaumont , Marc Witteman

Utilization of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, especially Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, becomes a widely accepted standard in many domains more particularly IoT-based systems. DNN models reach impressive performances in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Raphaël Joud , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Rémi Bernhard , Jean-Baptiste Rigaud

As deep learning models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, evaluating their vulnerabilities to adversarial perturbations is essential for ensuring their reliability and trustworthiness. Over the past decade, a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yong Xie , Weijie Zheng , Hanxun Huang , Guangnan Ye , Xingjun Ma

Recent work has shown that deep-learning algorithms for malware detection are also susceptible to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted perturbations to input malware that enable misleading classification. Although this has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Fabio Roli , Alessandro Armando

This work presents CaFA, a system for Cost-aware Feasible Attacks for assessing the robustness of neural tabular classifiers against adversarial examples realizable in the problem space, while minimizing adversaries' effort. To this end,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Matan Ben-Tov , Daniel Deutch , Nave Frost , Mahmood Sharif

Machine learning (ML) models are used in many safety- and security-critical applications nowadays. It is therefore important to measure the security of a system that uses ML as a component. This paper focuses on the field of ML,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jan Schröder , Jakub Breier

To face future reliability challenges, it is necessary to quantify the risk of error in any part of a computing system. To this goal, the Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) has long been used for chips. However, this metric is used…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Luc Jaulmes , Miquel Moretó , Mateo Valero , Marc Casas