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Maintaining the security of control systems in the presence of integrity attacks is a significant challenge. In literature, several possible attacks against control systems have been formulated including replay, false data injection, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators have been widely adopted to enhance the efficiency of deep learning applications. However, they also raise security concerns regarding their vulnerability to power side-channel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xiaobei Yan , Chip Hong Chang , Tianwei Zhang

Finite-time stability of networked control systems under Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are investigated in this paper, where the communication between the plant and the controller is compromised at some time intervals. Toward this goal,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Nader Meskin

Data injection attacks (DIAs) pose a significant cybersecurity threat to the Smart Grid by enabling an attacker to compromise the integrity of data acquisition and manipulate estimated states without triggering bad data detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ke Sun , Iñaki Esnaola , H. Vincent Poor

Side-channel attacks on microprocessors, like the RISC-V, exhibit security vulnerabilities that lead to several design challenges. Hence, it is imperative to study and analyze these security vulnerabilities comprehensively. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Mahya Morid Ahmadi , Faiq Khalid , Muhammad Shafique

Persistent Fault Attack (PFA) is a recently proposed Fault Attack (FA) method in CHES 2018. It is able to recover full AES secret key in the Single-Byte-Fault scenario. It is demonstrated that classical FA countermeasures, such as Dual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yukun Cheng , Mengce Zheng , Fan Huang , Jiajia Zhang , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

Side-channel attacks (SCAs) pose a serious threat to system security by extracting secret keys through physical leakages such as power consumption, timing variations, and electromagnetic emissions. Among existing countermeasures, artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jiheon Woo , Donggyun Ryu , Daewon Seo , Young-Sik Kim , Namyoon Lee , Yuval Cassuto , Yongjune Kim

Contemporary computing employs cache hierarchy to fill the speed gap between processors and main memories. In order to optimise system performance, Last Level Caches(LLC) are shared among all the cores. Cache sharing has made them an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jaspinder Kaur , Shirshendu Das

Increasing automation in vehicles enabled by increased connectivity to the outside world has exposed vulnerabilities in previously siloed automotive networks like controller area networks (CAN). Attributes of CAN such as broadcast-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Shashwat Khandelwal , Shreejith Shanker

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy false data injection attacks on sensors. We start by defining the stealthiness notion in the most general form where an attack is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

Caches have become the prime method for unintended information extraction across logical isolation boundaries. Even Spectre and Meltdown rely on the cache side channel, as it provides great resolution and is widely available on all major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Samira Briongos , Pedro Malagón , José M. Moya , Thomas Eisenbarth

We present a new hardware-agnostic side-channel attack that targets one of the most fundamental software caches in modern computer systems: the operating system page cache. The page cache is a pure software cache that contains all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daniel Gruss , Erik Kraft , Trishita Tiwari , Michael Schwarz , Ari Trachtenberg , Jason Hennessey , Alex Ionescu , Anders Fogh

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are high-value intellectual property (IP), yet deploying them to edge environments exposes them to \textbf{unrestricted oracle access}, rendering them vulnerable to model extraction and inversion attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hanyu Pei , Shang Liu , Zeyan Liu

Information Hiding is considered very important part of our lives. There exist many techniques for securing the information. This paper briefs on the techniques for information hiding and the potential threats to those methods. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Richa Gupta

Covert channels are communication channels used by attackers to transmit information from a compromised system when the access control policy of the system does not allow doing so. Previous work has shown that CPU frequency scaling can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Manuel Kalmbach , Mathias Gottschlag , Tim Schmidt , Frank Bellosa

Recent research has shown that the integrity of sensor measurements can be violated through out-of-band signal injection attacks. These attacks target the conversion process from a physical quantity to an analog property---a process that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Ilias Giechaskiel , Kasper Bonne Rasmussen

As more attention is paid to security in the context of control systems and as attacks occur to real control systems throughout the world, it has become clear that some of the most nefarious attacks are those that evade detection. The term…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Justin Ruths , Dragan Nesic

Recent work has highlighted the risks of intellectual property (IP) piracy of deep learning (DL) models from the side-channel leakage of DL hardware accelerators. In response, to provide side-channel leakage resiliency to DL hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mohammad Hashemi , Steffi Roy , Domenic Forte , Fatemeh Ganji

The USB protocol has become a ubiquitous standard for connecting peripherals to computers, making its security a critical concern. A recent research study demonstrated the potential to exploit weaknesses in well-established protocols, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Davis Ranney , Yufei Wang , A. Adam Ding , Yunsi Fei

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