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Cyber-physical system (CPS) is the foundational backbone of modern critical infrastructures, so ensuring its security and resilience against cyber-attacks is of pivotal importance. This paper addresses the challenge of designing anomaly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Yulin Feng , Dapeng Lan , Chao Shang

Malicious websites are a major cyber attack vector, and effective detection of them is an important cyber defense task. The main defense paradigm in this regard is that the defender uses some kind of machine learning algorithms to train a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Li Xu , Zhenxin Zhan , Shouhuai Xu , Keyin Ye

This paper studies provable security guarantees for cyber-physical systems (CPS) under actuator attacks. In particular, we consider CPS safety and propose a new attack detection mechanism based on zeroing control barrier function (ZCBF)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Kunal Garg , Ricardo G. Sanfelice , Alvaro A. Cardenas

Traditional Cyber-physical Systems(CPSs) were not built with cybersecurity in mind. They operated on separate Operational Technology (OT) networks. As these systems now become more integrated with Information Technology (IT) networks based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ameerah-Muhsinah Jamil , Lotfi ben Othmane , Altaz Valani

Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks on object detectors has attracted increasing interest. However, we identify that existing defense evaluations lack a unified and comprehensive framework, resulting in inconsistent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Junhao Zheng , Jiahao Sun , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Chen Ma , Chong Zhang , Cong Wang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

The adoption of reinforcement learning for critical infrastructure defense introduces a vulnerability where sophisticated attackers can strategically exploit the defense algorithm's learning dynamics. While prior work addresses this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yuksel Arslantas , Ahmed Said Donmez , Ege Yuceel , Muhammed O. Sayin

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 presents RADAR-Robust Adversarial Detection via Adversarial Retraining-an approach designed to enhance the robustness of adversarial detectors against adaptive attacks, while maintaining classifier performance. An adaptive attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Raz Lapid , Almog Dubin , Moshe Sipper

This article considers the design and analysis of multiple moving target defenses for recognizing and isolating attacks on cyber-physical systems. We consider attackers who perform integrity attacks on a set of sensors and actuators in a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Paul Griffioen , Sean Weerakkody , Bruno Sinopoli

In order to gain access to networks, different types of intrusion attacks have been designed, and the attackers are working on improving them. Computer networks have become increasingly important in daily life due to the increasing reliance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Mohammad Hossein Modirrousta , Parisa Forghani Arani , Mahdi Aliyari Shoorehdeli

Learning-enabled components (LECs) are widely used in cyber-physical systems (CPS) since they can handle the uncertainty and variability of the environment and increase the level of autonomy. However, it has been shown that LECs such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Feiyang Cai , Jiani Li , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Adversarial attacks present a significant security risk to image recognition tasks. Defending against these attacks in a real-life setting can be compared to the way antivirus software works, with a key consideration being how well the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haibo Zhang , Zhihua Yao , Kouichi Sakurai

Adversarial attacks, particularly patch attacks, pose significant threats to the robustness and reliability of deep learning models. Developing reliable defenses against patch attacks is crucial for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Caixin Kang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhengyi Wang , Shouwei Ruan , Yubo Chen , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

This paper presents a framework for converting wireless signals into structured datasets, which can be fed into machine learning algorithms for the detection of active eavesdropping attacks at the physical layer. More specifically, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Tiep M. Hoang , Trung Q. Duong , Hoang Duong Tuan , Sangarapillai Lambotharan , Emi Garcia-Palacios , Long D. Nguyen

Defending against physical adversarial attacks is a rapidly growing topic in deep learning and computer vision. Prominent forms of physical adversarial attacks, such as overlaid adversarial patches and objects, share similarities with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Perry Deng , Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Matthew Wright

Deep neural networks are proven to be vulnerable to fine-designed adversarial examples, and adversarial defense algorithms draw more and more attention nowadays. Pre-processing based defense is a major strategy, as well as learning robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Decheng Liu , Tao Chen , Chunlei Peng , Nannan Wang , Ruimin Hu , Xinbo Gao

Model stealing attacks have become a serious concern for deep learning models, where an attacker can steal a trained model by querying its black-box API. This can lead to intellectual property theft and other security and privacy risks. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Kacem Khaled , Mouna Dhaouadi , Felipe Gohring de Magalhães , Gabriela Nicolescu

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

Today's Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are large, complex, and affixed with networked sensors and actuators that are targets for cyber-attacks. Conventional detection techniques are unable to deal with the increasingly dynamic and complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Dan Li , Dacheng Chen , Jonathan Goh , See-kiong Ng

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) can be found everywhere: smart homes, autonomous vehicles, aircrafts, healthcare, agriculture and industrial production lines. CPSs are often critical, as system failure can cause serious damage to property and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Richárd Szabó , András Vörös