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While security vulnerabilities in traditional Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been extensively studied, the susceptibility of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) to adversarial attacks remains mostly underexplored. Until now, the mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Roberto Riaño , Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek , Aitor Urbieta

We introduce the problem of model-extraction attacks in cyber-physical systems in which an attacker attempts to estimate (or extract) the feedback controller of the system. Extracting (or estimating) the controller provides an unmatched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Momina Sajid , Yanning Shen , Yasser Shoukry

Insider attacks are one of the most challenging cybersecurity issues for companies, businesses and critical infrastructures. Despite the implemented perimeter defences, the risk of this kind of attack is still very high. In fact, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Efthimios Pantelidis , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

Recently, numerous highly-valuable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been trained using deep learning algorithms. To protect the Intellectual Property (IP) of the original owners over such DNN models, backdoor-based watermarks have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Peizhuo Lv , Hualong Ma , Kai Chen , Jiachen Zhou , Shengzhi Zhang , Ruigang Liang , Shenchen Zhu , Pan Li , Yingjun Zhang

Backdoor attacks have been one of the emerging security threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), leading to serious consequences. One of the mainstream backdoor defenses is model reconstruction-based. Such defenses adopt model unlearning or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Yufei Zhao , Dingji Wang , Bihuan Chen , Ziqian Chen , Xin Peng

Backdoor attack against deep neural networks is currently being profoundly investigated due to its severe security consequences. Current state-of-the-art backdoor attacks require the adversary to modify the input, usually by adding a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Ahmed Salem , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Backdoor attack intends to inject hidden backdoor into the deep neural networks (DNNs), such that the prediction of infected models will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by the attacker-defined trigger. Currently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yiming Li , Tongqing Zhai , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

Backdoor attacks are an insidious security threat against machine learning models. Adversaries can manipulate the predictions of compromised models by inserting triggers into the training phase. Various backdoor attacks have been devised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Xuanli He , Jun Wang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Trevor Cohn

Backdoor attacks covertly implant triggers into deep neural networks (DNNs) by poisoning a small portion of the training data with pre-designed backdoor triggers. This vulnerability is exacerbated in the era of large models, where extensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yige Li , Hanxun Huang , Jiaming Zhang , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

As deep neural networks and the datasets used to train them get larger, the default approach to integrating them into research and commercial projects is to download a pre-trained model and fine tune it. But these models can have uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

With the swift advancement of deep learning, state-of-the-art algorithms have been utilized in various social situations. Nonetheless, some algorithms have been discovered to exhibit biases and provide unequal results. The current debiasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Shangxi Wu , Qiuyang He , Jian Yu , Jitao Sang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) underpin critical applications yet remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks, typically reliant on heuristic brute-force methods. Despite significant empirical advancements in backdoor research, the lack of rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhou Feng , Jiahao Chen , Chunyi Zhou , Yuwen Pu , Tianyu Du , Jinbao Li , Jianhai Chen , Shouling Ji

Backdoor attacks have posed a significant threat to the security of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite considerable strides in developing defenses against backdoor attacks in the visual domain, the specialized defenses for the audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Nanjun Zhou , Weilin Lin , Li Liu

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

Model extraction attacks are one type of inference-time attacks that approximate the functionality and performance of a black-box victim model by launching a certain number of queries to the model and then leveraging the model's predictions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixu Wang , Tianle Gu , Yan Teng , Yingchun Wang , Xingjun Ma

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown remarkable performance in a diverse range of machine learning applications. However, it is widely known that DNNs are vulnerable to simple adversarial perturbations, which causes the model to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Gihyuk Ko , Gyumin Lim

As an emerging approach to explore the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs), backdoor learning has attracted increasing interest in recent years, and many seminal backdoor attack and defense algorithms are being developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Baoyuan Wu , Hongrui Chen , Mingda Zhang , Zihao Zhu , Shaokui Wei , Danni Yuan , Mingli Zhu , Ruotong Wang , Li Liu , Chao Shen

Deep neural network (DNN) has demonstrated its success in multiple domains. However, DNN models are inherently vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are generated by adding adversarial perturbations to benign inputs to fool the DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Margaret Loper , Ka-Ho Chow , Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Yanzhao Wu

Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) have came to rely on vast amounts of training data, providing an opportunity for malicious attackers to exploit and contaminate the data to carry out backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Ziqiang Li , Hong Sun , Pengfei Xia , Heng Li , Beihao Xia , Yi Wu , Bin Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to backdoor attacks during training. The model corrupted in this way functions normally, but when triggered by certain patterns in the input, produces a predefined target label. Existing defenses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Wanlun Ma , Derui Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang