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Deploying Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) on top of 5G and Beyond networks (5GB) makes them vulnerable to increasing vectors of security and privacy attacks. In this context, a wide range of advanced machine/deep learning based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Abdelaziz Amara korba , Abdelwahab Boualouache , Bouziane Brik , Rabah Rahal , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane , Sidi Mohammed Senouci

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) remains highly vulnerable to adaptive backdoor attacks designed to bypass traditional passive defense metrics. To address this limitation, we shift the defensive paradigm toward a novel active,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sheng Pan , Niansheng Tang

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

In federated learning, multiple parties train models locally and share their parameters with a central server, which aggregates them to update a global model. To address the risk of exposing sensitive data through local models, secure…

Horizontal Federated Learning (HFL) is particularly vulnerable to backdoor attacks as adversaries can easily manipulate both the training data and processes to execute sophisticated attacks. In this work, we study the impact of training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Simon Lachnit , Ghassan Karame

Deep neural networks have been widely used in many critical applications, such as autonomous vehicles and medical diagnosis. However, their security is threatened by backdoor attacks, which are achieved by adding artificial patterns to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Dong Huang , Qingwen Bu

Free-rider attacks against federated learning consist in dissimulating participation to the federated learning process with the goal of obtaining the final aggregated model without actually contributing with any data. This kind of attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yann Fraboni , Richard Vidal , Marco Lorenzi

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

Federated Prompt Learning has emerged as a communication-efficient and privacy-preserving paradigm for adapting large vision-language models like CLIP across decentralized clients. However, the security implications of this setup remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Backdoor attacks are among the most effective, practical, and stealthy attacks in deep learning. In this paper, we consider a practical scenario where a developer obtains a deep model from a third party and uses it as part of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Dorde Popovic , Amin Sadeghi , Ting Yu , Sanjay Chawla , Issa Khalil

Patch-based attacks introduce a perceptible but localized change to the input that induces misclassification. A limitation of current patch-based black-box attacks is that they perform poorly for targeted attacks, and even for the less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chenglin Yang , Adam Kortylewski , Cihang Xie , Yinzhi Cao , Alan Yuille

Federated learning is used to train a shared model in a decentralized way without clients sharing private data with each other. Federated learning systems are susceptible to poisoning attacks when malicious clients send false updates to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sungwon Han , Sungwon Park , Fangzhao Wu , Sundong Kim , Bin Zhu , Xing Xie , Meeyoung Cha

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in relational learning. However, their vulnerability to graph backdoor attacks (GBAs) poses a significant barrier to broader adoption in high-stakes applications. Despite recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mengting Pan , Fan Li , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang

Backdoor attacks aim to inject a backdoor into a classifier such that it predicts any input with an attacker-chosen backdoor trigger as an attacker-chosen target class. Existing backdoor attacks require either retraining the classifier with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bochuan Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Chuxuan Hu , Wenbo Guo , Zhen Xiang , Jinghui Chen , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Federated learning (FL) allows participants to jointly train a machine learning model without sharing their private data with others. However, FL is vulnerable to poisoning attacks such as backdoor attacks. Consequently, a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Kavita Kumari , Phillip Rieger , Hossein Fereidooni , Murtuza Jadliwala , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

With the success of deep learning algorithms in various domains, studying adversarial attacks to secure deep models in real world applications has become an important research topic. Backdoor attacks are a form of adversarial attacks on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Aniruddha Saha , Akshayvarun Subramanya , Hamed Pirsiavash

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the realm of high-quality image generation, garnering increased attention. This surge in interest is paralleled by a growing concern over the security threats associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sen Li , Junchi Ma , Minhao Cheng

This paper proposes a new defense against neural network backdooring attacks that are maliciously trained to mispredict in the presence of attacker-chosen triggers. Our defense is based on the intuition that the feature extraction layers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Hao Fu , Akshaj Kumar Veldanda , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Siddharth Garg , Farshad Khorrami

Backdoor attacks pose severe threats to machine learning systems, prompting extensive research in this area. However, most existing work focuses on single-target All-to-One (A2O) attacks, overlooking the more complex All-to-X (A2X) attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lei Wang , Yulong Tian , Hao Han , Fengyuan Xu

Federated Learning (FL) enables geographically distributed clients to collaboratively train machine learning models by sharing only their local models, ensuring data privacy. However, FL is vulnerable to untargeted attacks that aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Di Wu , Qian Li , Heng Yang , Yong Han