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Cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures, such as water treatment facilities, represent significant threats to public health, safety, and the environment. This paper introduces a systematic approach for modeling and assessing covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Victor Mattos , João Henrique Schmidt , Amit Bhaya , Alan Oliveira de Sá , Daniel Sadoc Menasché , Gaurav Srivastava

In this paper, we introduce the method of two-way coding, a concept originating in communication theory characterizing coding schemes for two-way channels, into (networked) feedback control systems under injection attacks. We first show…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Song Fang , Karl Henrik Johansson , Mikael Skoglund , Henrik Sandberg , Hideaki Ishii

The transistors used to construct Integrated Circuits (ICs) continue to shrink. While this shrinkage improves performance and density, it also reduces trust: the price to build leading-edge fabrication facilities has skyrocketed, forcing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Timothy Trippel , Kang G. Shin , Kevin B. Bush , Matthew Hicks

As a massive number of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are deployed, the security and privacy issues in IoT arouse more and more attention. The IoT attacks are causing tremendous loss to the IoT networks and even threatening human…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Tianbo Gu , Allaukik Abhishek , Hao Fu , Huanle Zhang , Debraj Basu , Prasant Mohapatra

Industrial control system (ICS) operations use trusted endpoints like human machine interfaces (HMIs) and workstations to relay commands to programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Because most PLCs lack layered defenses, compromise of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Rishabh Das. Aaron Werth , Tommy Morris

Deep learning technologies are pivotal in enhancing the performance of WiFi-based wireless sensing systems. However, they are inherently vulnerable to adversarial perturbation attacks, and regrettably, there is lacking serious attention to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Hangcheng Cao , Wenbin Huang , Guowen Xu , Xianhao Chen , Ziyang He , Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Jiang , Yuguang Fang

With the advancement of AI generative techniques, Deepfake faces have become incredibly realistic and nearly indistinguishable to the human eye. To counter this, Deepfake detectors have been developed as reliable tools for assessing face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shuaiwei Yuan , Junyu Dong , Yuezun Li

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

Internet has played a vital role in this modern world, the possibilities and opportunities offered are limitless. Despite all the hype, Internet services are liable to intrusion attack that could tamper the confidentiality and integrity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-23 M. A. Faizal , M. Mohd Zaki , S. Shahrin , Y. Robiah , S. Siti Rahayu , B. Nazrulazhar

The false data injection (FDI) attack cannot be detected by the traditional anomaly detection techniques used in the energy system state estimators. In this paper, we demonstrate how FDI attacks can be constructed blindly, i.e., without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Adnan Anwar , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mark Pickering

State estimation is of considerable significance for the power system operation and control. However, well-designed false data injection attacks can utilize blind spots in conventional residual-based bad data detection methods to manipulate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Chenguang Wang , Simon Tindemans , Kaikai Pan , Peter Palensky

Intrusion Detection and/or Prevention Systems (IDPS) represent an important line of defence against a variety of attacks that can compromise the security and proper functioning of an enterprise information system. Along with the widespread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Shalvi Dave , Bhushan Trivedi , Jimit Mahadevia

We study how to secure distributed filters for linear time-invariant systems with bounded noise under false-data injection attacks. A malicious attacker is able to arbitrarily manipulate the observations for a time-varying and unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Xingkang He , Xiaoqiang Ren , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

Attacks on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) can lead to significant physical damage. While offline safety and security assessments can provide insight into vulnerable system components, they may not account for stealthy attacks designed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Mazen Azzam , Liliana Pasquale , Gregory Provan , Bashar Nuseibeh

Modern advances in sensor, computing, and communication technologies enable various smart grid applications. The heavy dependence on communication technology has highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to false data injection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Xiangyu Niu Jiangnan Li , Jinyuan Sun

Many machine learning adversarial attacks find adversarial samples of a victim model ${\mathcal M}$ by following the gradient of some attack objective functions, either explicitly or implicitly. To confuse and detect such attacks, we take…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jiyi Zhang , Ee-Chien Chang , Hwee Kuan Lee

Production machine learning systems are consistently under attack by adversarial actors. Various deep learning models must be capable of accurately detecting fake or adversarial input while maintaining speed. In this work, we propose one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Matthew Ciolino , Josh Kalin , David Noever

A distribution inference attack aims to infer statistical properties of data used to train machine learning models. These attacks are sometimes surprisingly potent, but the factors that impact distribution inference risk are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anshuman Suri , Yifu Lu , Yanjin Chen , David Evans

Attacks, including the manipulation of sensor readings and the modification of actuator commands, pose a significant challenge to the security and privacy of automated systems. This paper considers discrete event systems that can be modeled…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis

Globally, the external internet is increasingly being connected to industrial control systems. As a result, there is an immediate need to protect these networks from a variety of threats. The key infrastructure of industrial activity can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hamza Kheddar , Yassine Himeur , Ali Ismail Awad