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Cyber deception is an emerging proactive defense strategy to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) by misleading and distracting attackers from critical assets. However, since deception…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

Cybersecurity is developing rapidly, and new methods of defence against attackers are appearing, such as Cyber Deception (CYDEC). CYDEC consists of deceiving the enemy who performs actions without realising that he/she is being deceived.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Pedro Beltran Lopez , Pantaleone Nespoli , Manuel Gil Perez

Deception detection has attracted increasing attention due to its importance in real-world scenarios. Its main goal is to detect deceptive behaviors from multimodal clues such as gestures, facial expressions, prosody, etc. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Kang Chen , Zheng Lian , Haiyang Sun , Rui Liu , Jiangyan Yi , Bin Liu , Jianhua Tao

Siren represents a pioneering research effort aimed at fortifying cybersecurity through strategic integration of deception, machine learning, and proactive threat analysis. Drawing inspiration from mythical sirens, this project employs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Samhruth Ananthanarayanan , Girish Kulathumani , Ganesh Narayanan

A common assumption in the social learning literature is that agents exchange information in an unselfish manner. In this work, we consider the scenario where a subset of agents aims at deceiving the network, meaning they aim at driving the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Konstantinos Ntemos , Virginia Bordignon , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

A honeypot is a type of security facility deliberately created to be probed, attacked and compromised. It is often used for protecting production systems by detecting and deflecting unauthorized accesses. It is also useful for investigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Wenjun Fan , Zhihui Du , David Fernandez , Victor A. Villagra

We study the security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the context of the supervisory control layer. Specifically, we propose a general model of a CPS attacker in the framework of discrete event systems and investigate the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Romulo Meira-Goes , Eunsuk Kang , Raymond H. Kwong , Stephane Lafortune

Deep learning methods have shown state of the art performance in a range of tasks from computer vision to natural language processing. However, it is well known that such systems are vulnerable to attackers who craft inputs in order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Giulio Zizzo , Chris Hankin , Sergio Maffeis , Kevin Jones

This paper argues that a range of current AI systems have learned how to deceive humans. We define deception as the systematic inducement of false beliefs in the pursuit of some outcome other than the truth. We first survey empirical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Peter S. Park , Simon Goldstein , Aidan O'Gara , Michael Chen , Dan Hendrycks

In the field of network security, the concept of honeypots is well established in research as well as in production. Honeypots are used to imitate a legitimate target on the network and to raise an alert on any interaction. This does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , Norman Becker

We introduce deceptive signaling framework as a new defense measure against advanced adversaries in cyber-physical systems. In general, adversaries look for system-related information, e.g., the underlying state of the system, in order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Basar

Cyber deception allows compensating the late response of defenders countermeasures to the ever evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of attackers. This proactive defense strategy employs decoys resembling legitimate system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Marco Zambianco , Claudio Facchinetti , Domenico Siracusa

In this paper, we study the use of deception for strategic planning in adversarial environments. We model the interaction between the agent (player 1) and the adversary (player 2) as a two-player concurrent game in which the adversary has…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Lening Li , Haoxiang Ma , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has raised concerns about the security of connected devices. There is a need to develop suitable and cost-efficient methods to identify vulnerabilities in IoT devices in order to address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Volviane Saphir Mfogo , Alain Zemkoho , Laurent Njilla , Marcellin Nkenlifack , Charles Kamhoua

The cybersecurity threat landscape has lately become overly complex. Threat actors leverage weaknesses in the network and endpoint security in a very coordinated manner to perpetuate sophisticated attacks that could bring down the entire…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Mohit Sewak , Sanjay K. Sahay , Hemant Rathore

This paper explores coordinated deception strategies by synchronizing defenses across coupled cyber and physical systems to mislead attackers and strengthen defense mechanisms. We introduce a Stackelberg game framework to model the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Md Abu Sayed , Asif Rahman , Ahmed Hemida , Christopher Kiekintveld , Charles Kamhoua

Detecting cyber attacks in the network environments used by Internet-of-things (IoT) and preventing them from causing physical perturbations play an important role in delivering dependable services. To achieve this goal, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Hui Lin

Deception is the intentional practice of twisting information. It is a nuanced societal practice deeply intertwined with human societal evolution, characterized by a multitude of facets. This research explores the problem of deception…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Anku Rani , Dwip Dalal , Shreya Gautam , Pankaj Gupta , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amit Sheth , Amitava Das

Satellite communication networks operate under stringent computational constraints and are susceptible to sophisticated cyberattacks. This paper introduces a novel defense framework that decouples security optimization into ground-based…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yuzhou Xiao , Linan Huang , Jiachen Sun , Peilong Liu , Chunxiao Jiang , Linling Kuang

Deceptive and anti-deceptive technologies have been developed for various specific applications. But there is a significant need for a general, holistic, and quantitative framework of deception. Game theory provides an ideal set of tools to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Quanyan Zhu