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Over the last decade, the number of cyberattacks targeting power systems and causing physical and economic damages has increased rapidly. Among them, False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs) is a class of cyberattacks against power grid…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Ali Sayghe , Yaodan Hu , Ioannis Zografopoulos , XiaoRui Liu , Raj Gautam Dutta , Yier Jin , Charalambos Konstantinou

The integration of information and physical systems in modern power grids has heightened vulnerabilities to False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs), threatening the secure operation of power cyber-physical systems (CPS). This paper reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoyong Bo

This paper quantifies the security of uncertain interconnected systems under stealthy data injection attacks. In particular, we consider a large-scale system composed of a certain subsystem interconnected with an uncertain subsystem, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

This draft addresses issues of detecting stealthy integrity cyber-attacks on automatic control systems in the unified control and detection framework. A general form of integrity cyber-attacks that cannot be detected using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Steven X. Ding , Linlin Li , Dong Zhao , Chris Louen , Tianyu Liu

False data injection attacks (FDIAs) pose a significant security threat to power system state estimation. To detect such attacks, recent studies have proposed machine learning (ML) techniques, particularly deep neural networks (DNNs).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Jiangnan Li , Yingyuan Yang , Jinyuan Stella Sun , Kevin Tomsovic , Hairong Qi

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

Smart grids are inherently susceptible to various types of malicious cyberattacks that have all been documented in the recent literature. Traditional cybersecurity research on power systems often utilizes simplified models that fail to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Abdallah Alalem Albustami , Ahmad F. Taha , Elias Bou-Harb

False data injection attacks (FDIA) are a main category of cyber-attacks threatening the security of power systems. Contrary to the detection of these attacks, less attention has been paid to identifying the attacked units of the grid. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Osman Boyaci , Mohammad Rasoul Narimani , Katherine Davis , Muhammad Ismail , Thomas J Overbye , Erchin Serpedin

In this paper, we consider a hierarchical control based DC microgrid (DCmG) equipped with unknown input observer (UIO) based detectors, where the potential false data injection (FDI) attacks and the distributed countermeasure are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Mengxiang Liu , Peng Cheng , Chengcheng Zhao , Ruilong Deng , Wenhai Wang , Jiming Chen

The increase in network connectivity has also resulted in several high-profile attacks on cyber-physical systems. An attacker that manages to access a local network could remotely affect control performance by tampering with sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Ilija Jovanov , Miroslav Pajic

False data injection attacks (FDIAs) on smart inverters are a growing concern linked to increased renewable energy production. While data-based FDIA detection methods are also actively developed, we show that they remain vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Pooja Aslami , Kejun Chen , Timothy M. Hansen , Malik Hassanaly

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control for discrete-time Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator false data injection attacks. Using a bank of Unknown Input Observers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

In this paper, we introduce a new vulnerability of cyber-physical systems to malicious attack. It arises when the physical plant, that is modeled as a continuous-time LTI system, is controlled by a digital controller. In the sampled-data…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jihan Kim , Gyunghoon Park , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun

The cybersecurity of microgrid has received widespread attentions due to the frequently reported attack accidents against distributed energy resource (DER) manufactures. Numerous impact mitigation schemes have been proposed to reduce or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Mengxiang Liu , Xin Zhang , Rui Zhang , Zhuoran Zhou , Zhenyong Zhang , Ruilong Deng

Fault injection attacks induce hardware failures in circuits and exploit these faults to compromise the security of the system. It has been demonstrated that FIAs can bypass system security mechanisms, cause faulty outputs, and gain access…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Yan He , Yumin Su , Kaiyuan Yang

In this paper, we propose an effective and easily deployable approach to detect the presence of stealthy sensor attacks in industrial control systems, where (legacy) control devices critically rely on accurate (and usually non-encrypted)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Suman Sourav , Binbin Chen

Stealthy attacks on Industrial Control Systems can cause significant damage while evading detection. In this paper, instead of focusing on the detection of stealthy attacks, we aim to provide early warnings to operators, in order to avoid…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Mazen Azzam , Liliana Pasquale , Gregory Provan , Bashar Nuseibeh

Modern advances in sensor, computing, and communication technologies enable various smart grid applications. The heavy dependence on communication technology has highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to false data injection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Xiangyu Niu Jiangnan Li , Jinyuan Sun

Stealthy sensor injection attacks are serious threats for industrial plants as they can compromise the plant's integrity without being detected by traditional fault detectors. In this manuscript, we study the possibility of revealing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Cédric Escudero , Michelle S. Chong , Paolo Massioni , Eric Zamaï

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