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Intuitively, a backdoor attack against Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is to inject hidden malicious behaviors into DNNs such that the backdoor model behaves legitimately for benign inputs, yet invokes a predefined malicious behavior when its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shaofeng Li , Shiqing Ma , Minhui Xue , Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security threat to natural language processing (NLP) systems, but existing methods lack explainable trigger mechanisms and fail to quantitatively model vulnerability patterns. This work pioneers the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Gejian Zhao , Hanzhou Wu , Xinpeng Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries can maliciously trigger model misclassifications by implanting a hidden backdoor during model training. This paper proposes a simple yet effective input-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Linshan Hou , Ruili Feng , Zhongyun Hua , Wei Luo , Leo Yu Zhang , Yiming Li

Recent studies revealed that deep neural networks (DNNs) are exposed to backdoor threats when training with third-party resources (such as training samples or backbones). The backdoored model has promising performance in predicting benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chengxiao Luo , Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Backdoor attacks represent a serious threat to neural network models. A backdoored model will misclassify the trigger-embedded inputs into an attacker-chosen target label while performing normally on other benign inputs. There are already…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jing Xu , Minhui , Xue , Stjepan Picek

In the rapidly evolving landscape of communication and network security, the increasing reliance on deep neural networks (DNNs) and cloud services for data processing presents a significant vulnerability: the potential for backdoors that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gain its popularity in various scenarios in recent years. However, its excellent ability of fitting complex functions also makes it vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Specifically, a backdoor can remain hidden…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xinrui Liu , Yu-an Tan , Yajie Wang , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), despite being energy-efficient when implemented on neuromorphic hardware and coupled with event-based Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), are vulnerable to security threats, such as adversarial attacks, i.e., small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Alberto Marchisio , Giacomo Pira , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attack, which does not affect the network's performance on clean data but would manipulate the network behavior once a trigger pattern is added. Existing defense methods have greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Min Liu , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Xiangyu Yue

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown great success in many computer vision applications. However, they are also known to be susceptible to backdoor attacks. When conducting backdoor attacks, most of the existing approaches assume that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Haoliang Li , Yufei Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yang Liu , Shiqi Wang , Renjie Wan , Lap-Pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Backdoor attacks, representing an emerging threat to the integrity of deep neural networks, have garnered significant attention due to their ability to compromise deep learning systems clandestinely. While numerous backdoor attacks occur…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Sze Jue Yang , Chinh D. La , Quang H. Nguyen , Kok-Seng Wong , Anh Tuan Tran , Chee Seng Chan , Khoa D. Doan

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

The ubiquity of deep neural networks (DNNs), cloud-based training, and transfer learning is giving rise to a new cybersecurity frontier in which unsecure DNNs have `structural malware' (i.e., compromised weights and activation pathways). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 N. Benjamin Erichson , Dane Taylor , Qixuan Wu , Michael W. Mahoney

Deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. An adversary poisons some of the training data in such attacks by installing a trigger. The goal is to make the trained DNN output the attacker's desired class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved a great success in various computer vision tasks, it is recently found that they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we focus on the so-called \textit{backdoor attack},…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Hao Cheng , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin

Recent studies have revealed the vulnerability of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models to backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attacks arbitrarily set the trigger mask or use a randomly selected trigger, which restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xueluan Gong , Bowei Tian , Meng Xue , Yuan Wu , Yanjiao Chen , Qian Wang

Recent advancements in deep learning-based compression techniques have surpassed traditional methods. However, deep neural networks remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where pre-defined triggers induce malicious behaviors. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Lanqing Guo , Shijian Lu , Ling-Yu Duan , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

With the success of deep learning algorithms in various domains, studying adversarial attacks to secure deep models in real world applications has become an important research topic. Backdoor attacks are a form of adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

Backdoor attacks aim to surreptitiously insert malicious triggers into DNN models, granting unauthorized control during testing scenarios. Existing methods lack robustness against defense strategies and predominantly focus on enhancing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Pengfei He , Yue Xing , Han Xu , Jie Ren , Yingqian Cui , Shenglai Zeng , Jiliang Tang , Makoto Yamada , Mohammad Sabokrou

Deep neural networks (DNN), despite their remarkable performance, are highly vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing defenses mainly rely on activation anomaly analysis or trigger reverse engineering and often require clean samples or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yinbo Yu , Jing Fang , Xuewen Zhang , Chunwei Tian , Qi Zhu , Daoqiang Zhang , Jiajia Liu