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Deep learning-based lane detection (LD) plays a critical role in autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. However, its vulnerability to backdoor attacks presents a significant security concern. Existing backdoor attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yifan Liao , Yuxin Cao , Yedi Zhang , Wentao He , Yan Xiao , Xianglong Du , Zhiyong Huang , Jin Song Dong

The advance of smartphones and cellular networks boosts the need of mobile advertising and targeted marketing. However, it also triggers the unseen security threats. We found that the phone scams with fake calling numbers of very short…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 TonTon Hsien-De Huang , Chia-Mu Yu , Hung-Yu Kao

Digital systems find it challenging to keep up with cybersecurity threats. The daily emergence of more than 560,000 new malware strains poses significant hazards to the digital ecosystem. The traditional malware detection methods fail to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Abrar Fahim , Shamik Dey , Md. Nurul Absur , Md Kamrul Siam , Md. Tahmidul Huque , Jafreen Jafor Godhuli

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become popular for medical image analysis tasks like cancer diagnosis and lesion detection. However, a recent study demonstrates that medical deep learning systems can be compromised by carefully-engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Xingjun Ma , Yuhao Niu , Lin Gu , Yisen Wang , Yitian Zhao , James Bailey , Feng Lu

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

Powered by machine learning services in the cloud, numerous learning-driven mobile applications are gaining popularity in the market. As deep learning tasks are mostly computation-intensive, it has become a trend to process raw data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shuang Zhang , Liyao Xiang , Congcong Li , Yixuan Wang , Quanshi Zhang , Wei Wang , Bo Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the essential components for various commercialized machine learning services, such as Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS). Recent studies show that machine learning services face severe privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Xiaoyong Yuan , Leah Ding , Lan Zhang , Xiaolin Li , Dapeng Wu

Recently, backdoor attack has become an increasing security threat to deep neural networks and drawn the attention of researchers. Backdoor attacks exploit vulnerabilities in third-party pretrained models during the training phase, enabling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Lu Pang , Tao Sun , Weimin Lyu , Haibin Ling , Chao Chen

Data poisoning attacks compromise the integrity of machine-learning models by introducing malicious training samples to influence the results during test time. In this work, we investigate backdoor data poisoning attack on deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Mahesh Subedar , Nilesh Ahuja , Ranganath Krishnan , Ibrahima J. Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

Deep learning models are widely deployed in many applications, such as object detection in various security fields. However, these models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Most backdoor attacks were intensively studied on classified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Yaguan Qian , Boyuan Ji , Shuke He , Shenhui Huang , Xiang Ling , Bin Wang , Wei Wang

Interest in poisoning attacks and backdoors recently resurfaced for Deep Learning (DL) applications. Several successful defense mechanisms have been recently proposed for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), for example in the context of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Maximilian Bachl , Alexander Hartl , Joachim Fabini , Tanja Zseby

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

High-performance Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in many real-world applications e.g., cloud prediction APIs. Recent advances in model functionality stealing attacks via black-box access (i.e., inputs in, predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved unprecedented success in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), including computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition. However, their superior performance comes at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Han Cai , Ji Lin , Yujun Lin , Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Hanrui Wang , Ligeng Zhu , Song Han

Backdoor attacks are rapidly emerging threats to deep neural networks (DNNs). In the backdoor attack scenario, attackers usually implant the backdoor into the target model by manipulating the training dataset or training process. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Nan Zhong , Zhenxing Qian , Xinpeng Zhang

Powered by the rising popularity of deep learning techniques on smartphones, on-device deep learning models are being used in vital fields like finance, social media, and driving assistance. Because of the transparency of the Android…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Han Hu , Yujin Huang , Qiuyuan Chen , Terry Yue Zhuo , Chunyang Chen

Backdoor attacks have become a critical threat to deep neural networks (DNNs), drawing many research interests. However, most of the studied attacks employ a single type of trigger. Consequently, proposed backdoor defenders often rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Duc Anh Vu , Anh Tuan Tran , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

As deep learning systems are widely adopted in safety- and security-critical applications, such as autonomous vehicles, banking systems, etc., malicious faults and attacks become a tremendous concern, which potentially could lead to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Jakub Breier , Xiaolu Hou , Dirmanto Jap , Lei Ma , Shivam Bhasin , Yang Liu

Dense retrieval systems have been widely used in various NLP applications. However, their vulnerabilities to potential attacks have been underexplored. This paper investigates a novel attack scenario where the attackers aim to mislead the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Quanyu Long , Yue Deng , LeiLei Gan , Wenya Wang , Sinno Jialin Pan

We study the realistic potential of conducting backdoor attack against deep neural networks (DNNs) during deployment stage. Specifically, our goal is to design a deployment-stage backdoor attack algorithm that is both threatening and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Xiangyu Qi , Jifeng Zhu , Chulin Xie , Yong Yang