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This article introduces an anomaly detection based algorithm (AD-CPS) to detect false data injection attacks that fall under the category of data deception/integrity attacks, but with arbitrary information structure, in cyber-physical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Souvik Das , Avishek Ghosh , Debasish Chatterjee

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

Delusive attacks aim to substantially deteriorate the test accuracy of the learning model by slightly perturbing the features of correctly labeled training examples. By formalizing this malicious attack as finding the worst-case training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Lue Tao , Lei Feng , Jinfeng Yi , Sheng-Jun Huang , Songcan Chen

Responding appropriately to the detections of a sequential change detector requires knowledge of the rate at which false positives occur in the absence of change. Setting detection thresholds to achieve a desired false positive rate is…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-18 Oliver Cobb , Arnaud Van Looveren , Janis Klaise

This paper studies an attacker against a cyber-physical system (CPS) whose goal is to move the state of a CPS to a target state while ensuring that his or her probability of being detected does not exceed a given bound. The attacker's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

This paper proposes an active attack detection scheme for constrained cyber-physical systems. Despite passive approaches where the detection is based on the analysis of the input-output data, active approaches interact with the system by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Bruno Sinopoli

We investigate the problem of designing optimal stealthy poisoning attacks on the control channel of Markov decision processes (MDPs). This research is motivated by the recent interest of the research community for adversarial and poisoning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-16 Alessio Russo , Alexandre Proutiere

Recently, reconstruction-based anomaly detection was proposed as an effective technique to detect attacks in dynamic industrial control networks. Unlike classical network anomaly detectors that observe the network traffic,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alessandro Erba , Riccardo Taormina , Stefano Galelli , Marcello Pogliani , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

A resilient state estimation scheme for uniformly observable nonlinear systems, based on a method for local identification of sensor attacks, is presented. The estimation problem is combinatorial in nature, and so many methods require…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Junsoo Kim , Jin Gyu Lee , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

We consider the problem of security-aware planning in an unknown stochastic environment, in the presence of attacks on control signals (i.e., actuators) of the robot. We model the attacker as an agent who has the full knowledge of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Yu Wang , Miroslav Pajic

With the emergence of cyber-attacks on control systems it has become clear that improving the security of control systems is an important task in today's society. We investigate how an attacker that has access to the measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 David Umsonst , Henrik Sandberg

In this paper, we consider the problem of state-estimation in the presence of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. We formulate this problem as an state estimation problem for a plant with switching measured outputs. In the absence of attack,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 Mohammad Naghnaeian

We consider the probabilistic planning problem for a defender (P1) who can jointly query the sensors and take control actions to reach a set of goal states while being aware of possible sensor attacks by an adversary (P2) who has perfect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Sumukha Udupa , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Shuo Han , Nandi O. Leslie , Charles A. Kamhoua , Jie Fu

This note addresses the problem of evaluating the impact of an attack on discrete-time nonlinear stochastic control systems. The problem is formulated as an optimal control problem with a joint chance constraint that forces the adversary to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Hampei Sasahara , Takashi Tanaka , Henrik Sandberg

Risk assessment is an inevitable step in implementation of a cyber-defense strategy. An important part of this assessment is to reason about the impact of possible attacks. In this paper, we propose a framework for estimating the impact of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jezdimir Milosevic , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xubin Fang , Rick S. Blum , Ramesh Bharadwaj , Brian M. Sadler

Security of an ideal system for quantum key distribution can be formally proved. However, technological imperfections of real systems can be misused by an eavesdropper to get information about the key without causing a detectable change in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Miloslav Dušek , Siddarth Koduru Joshi

Test-time adaptation (TTA) effectively counters distribution shifts but exposes models to adversarial manipulation via the unlabeled test stream. Existing class-wise targeted attacks remain impractical for stealthy exploitation in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Phuc Duc Nguyen , Quang Duc Nguyen

Multi-sensor integration via error-state Kalman filter (KF) is widely employed for precise state estimation in cyber-physical systems (CPSs). However, this integration exposes the system to stealthy deception attacks that render…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Meiqi Tian , Yihan Liu , Bingzhuo Zhong

Intrusion Detection is an invaluable part of computer networks defense. An important consideration is the fact that raising false alarms carries a significantly lower cost than not detecting at- tacks. For this reason, we examine how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-07-15 Aikaterini Mitrokotsa , Christos Dimitrakakis , Christos Douligeris