English
Related papers

Related papers: Cyber-physical Defense for Heterogeneous Multi-age…

200 papers

Reinforcement learning techniques are being explored as solutions to the threat of cyber attacks on enterprise networks. Recent research in the field of AI in cyber security has investigated the ability of homogeneous multi-agent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Popa , Adrian Taylor , Ranwa Al Mallah

The coming decades may see the large scale deployment of networked cyber-physical systems to address global needs in areas such as energy, water, healthcare, and transportation. However, as recent events have shown, such systems are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Bharadwaj Satchidanandan , P. R. Kumar

This paper tackles the problem of making complex resource-constrained cyber-physical systems (CPS) resilient to sensor anomalies. In particular, we present a framework for checkpointing and roll-forward recovery of state-estimates in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Kaustubh Sridhar , Radoslav Ivanov , Vuk Lesi , Marcio Juliato , Manoj Sastry , Lily Yang , James Weimer , Oleg Sokolsky , Insup Lee

This paper demonstrates that false data injection (FDI) attacks are extremely limited in their ability to cause physical consequences on $N-1$ reliable power systems operating with real-time contingency analysis (RTCA) and security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-18 Zhigang Chu , Jiazi Zhang , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown strong capabilities in solving complex tasks. As MAS become increasingly autonomous in various safety-critical tasks, detecting malicious agents has become a critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junjun Pan , Yixin Liu , Rui Miao , Kaize Ding , Yu Zheng , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Shirui Pan

The proliferation of open-source software (OSS) has made software supply chains prime targets for attacks like Package Confusion, where adversaries publish malicious packages with names deceptively similar to legitimate ones. To protect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yu Li , Wei Ma , Zhi Chen , Ye Liu , Lingxiao Jiang , Junyi Tao , Hao Liu , Yongqiang Lyu , Qiang Hu

Cyberattack susceptibilities are introduced as the communication requirement increases with the incorporation of more renewable energy sources into DC microgrids. Parallel DC-DC converters are utilized to provide high current and supply the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Naser Souri , Ali Mehrizi-Sani

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) into Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) has expanded their cyber-attack surface, introducing new and sophisticated threats with potential to exploit emerging vulnerabilities. Assessing the risks of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Braden K Webb , Sumit Purohit , Rounak Meyur

In this paper, we consider the problem of attack-resilient state estimation, that is to reliably estimate the true system states despite two classes of attacks: (i) attacks on the switching mechanisms and (ii) false data injection attacks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Sze Zheng Yong , Minghui Zhu , Emilio Frazzoli

Autonomous Large Language Model (LLM) agents exhibit significant vulnerability to Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) attacks. These attacks hijack agent behavior by polluting external information sources, exploiting fundamental trade-offs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zhibo Liang , Tianze Hu , Zaiye Chen , Mingjie Tang

Prior work has shown that multibiometric systems are vulnerable to presentation attacks, assuming that their matching score distribution is identical to that of genuine users, without fabricating any fake trait. We have recently shown that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Gian Luca Marcialis , Fabio Roli

Cyber-physical robotic systems are vulnerable to false data injection attacks (FDIAs), in which an adversary corrupts sensor signals while evading residual-based passive anomaly detectors such as the chi-squared test. Such stealthy attacks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gabriele Gualandi , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos

This paper deals with secure state estimation of cyber-physical systems subject to switching (on/off) attack signals and injection of fake packets (via either packet substitution or insertion of extra packets). The random set paradigm is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Nicola Forti , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Bruno Sinopoli

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

The resilience of cyberphysical systems to denial-of-service (DoS) and integrity attacks is studied in this paper. The cyberphysical system is modeled as a linear structured system, and its resilience to an attack is interpreted in a graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , M. A. Rajan , M. Girish Chandra , Rance Cleaveland , Steven I. Marcus

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are important whenever computer technology interfaces with the physical world as it does in self-driving cars or aircraft control support systems. Due to their many subtleties, controllers for cyber-physical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-15 André Platzer

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become a prevalent paradigm for Large Language Model (LLM) applications. However, the complex multi-agent design in MAS introduces unique trustworthiness concerns: adversarial agents can inject misleading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chengcan Wu , Zhixin Zhang , Mingqian Xu , Zeming Wei , Meng Sun

In this paper, we study the impact of stealthy attacks on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) modeled as a stochastic linear system. An attack is characterised by a malicious injection into the system through input, output or both, and it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Tianju Sui , Yilin Mo , Damián Marelli , Ximing Sun , Minyue Fu

The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Nathaniel Smith , Yu Wang

Embedded systems are parts of our daily life and used in many fields. They can be found in smartphones or in modern cars including GPS, light/rain sensors and other electronic assistance mechanisms. These systems may handle sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Pascal Cotret , Guy Gogniat , Martha Johanna Sepulveda Florez