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This paper studies false data injection (FDI) attacks against phasor measurement units (PMUs). As compared to the conventional bad data detector (BDD), an enhanced BDD utilizing the effect of zero injection buses is proposed. Feasible…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Zhigang Chu , Jiazi Zhang , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

In this paper, we study stateless and stateful physics-based anomaly detection scenarios via distributed estimation over sensor networks. In the stateful case, the detector keeps track of the sensor residuals (i.e., the difference of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper, we investigate data-driven attack detection and identification in a model-free setting. We consider a practically motivated scenario in which the available dataset may be compromised by malicious sensor attacks, but contains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Takumi Shinohara , Karl H. Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

In distributed detection systems, energy-efficient ordered transmission (EEOT) schemes are able to reduce the number of transmissions required to make a final decision. In this work, we investigate the effect of data falsification attacks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Chen Quan , Nandan Sriranga , Haodong Yang , Yunghsiang S. Han , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney

In this article, we address the problem of risk assessment of stealthy attacks on uncertain control systems. Considering data injection attacks that aim at maximizing impact while remaining undetected, we use the recently proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira , Anders Ahlén

This article investigates the security issue caused by false data injection attacks in distributed estimation, wherein each sensor can construct two types of residues based on local estimates and neighbor information, respectively. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Jiahao Huang , Marios M. Polycarpou , Wen Yang , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang

Stealthy false data injection attacks on cyber-physical systems introduce erroneous measurements onto sensors with the intent to degrade system performance. An intelligent attacker can design stealthy attacks with knowledge of the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Paul J. Bonczek , Nicola Bezzo

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator and sensor false data injection attacks. Using a bank of unknown input…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

The advent of smart power grid which plays a vital role in the upcoming smart city era is accompanied with the implementation of a monitoring tool, called state estimation. For the case of the unbalanced residential distribution grid, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Nam N. Tran , Hemanshu R. Pota , Quang N. Tran , Jiankun Hu

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the effects of data poisoning attacks on data-driven control methods. Poisoning attacks are well-known to the Machine Learning community, which, however, make use of assumptions, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Alessio Russo

Regression models are widely used in industrial processes, engineering, and in natural and physical sciences, yet their robustness to poisoning has received less attention. When it has, studies often assume unrealistic threat models and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Javier Carnerero-Cano , Luis Muñoz-González , Phillippa Spencer , Emil C. Lupu

A class of data integrity attack, known as false data injection (FDI) attack, has been studied with a considerable amount of work. It has shown that with perfect knowledge of the system model and the capability to manipulate a certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Kaikai Pan , André Teixeira , Milos Cvetkovic , Peter Palensky

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme to render the detection apparatus of a Quantum Key Distribution system immune to the main classes of hacking attacks in which the eavesdropper explores the back-door opened by the…

The problem of mitigating maliciously injected signals in interconnected systems is dealt with in this paper. We consider the class of covert attacks, as they are stealthy and cannot be detected by conventional means in centralized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Angelo Barboni , Thomas Parisini

The paper addresses the problem of detecting attacks on distributed estimator networks that aim to intentionally bias process estimates produced by the network. It provides a sufficient condition, in terms of the feasibility of certain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Mohammad Deghat , Valery Ugrinovskii , Iman Shames , Cedric Langbort

A model-based windowed chi-squared procedure is proposed for identifying falsified sensor measurements. We employ the widely-used static chi-squared and the dynamic cumulative sum (CUSUM) fault/attack detection procedures as benchmarks to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Tunga R , Carlos Murguia , Justin Ruths

In this paper, we present the concept of boosting the resiliency of optimization-based observers for cyber-physical systems (CPS) using auxiliary sources of information. Due to the tight coupling of physics, communication and computation, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Charalambos Konstantinou , Carlos A. Wong , Satish Vedula

Information-theoretic stealth attacks are data injection attacks that minimize the amount of information acquired by the operator about the state variables, while simultaneously limiting the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Ke Sun , Iñaki Esnaola , Antonia M. Tulino , H. Vincent Poor

The design of safe-critical control algorithms for systems under Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks on the system output is studied in this work. We aim to address scenarios where attack-mitigation approaches are not feasible, and the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Santiago Jimenez Leudo , Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

For industrial control systems (ICS), many existing defense solutions focus on detecting attacks only when they make the system behave anomalously. Instead, in this work, we study how to detect attackers who are still in their hiding phase.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Suman Sourav , Binbin Chen