Recent advances in machine learning, especially techniques such as deep neural networks, are promoting a range of high-stakes applications, including autonomous driving, which often relies on deep learning for perception. While deep learning for perception has been shown to be vulnerable to a host of subtle adversarial…
Recent advances in machine learning, especially techniques such as deep neural networks, are enabling a range of emerging applications. One such example is autonomous driving, which often relies on deep learning for perception. However, deep learning-based perception has been shown to be vulnerable to a host of subtle …
This paper discusses adversarial attacks on cyber security systems using machine learning.
problem Adversarial attacks limit the use of machine learning in cyber security.
method Characterizes adversarial attack methods and their applications in cyber security.
result Highlights unique challenges and future research directions for adversarial attacks in cyber security.
Defense against ASR attacks using dropout uncertainty.
problem Adversarial attacks on ASR systems.
method Dropout uncertainty in neural networks.
result High detection accuracy across various ASR systems and datasets.
Due to the rapid growth of machine learning tools and specifically deep networks in various computer vision and image processing areas, application of Convolutional Neural Networks for watermarking have recently emerged. In this paper, we propose a deep end-to-end diffusion watermarking framework (ReDMark) which can be…
Bullseye Polytope improves clean-label poisoning attacks in transfer learning.
problem Poisoning neural networks with correctly labeled data.
method Creates poison images with centers close to target images in feature space.
result Improves attack success rate by 26.75% in end-to-end transfer learning.
Paper introduces class-oriented poisoning attacks to improve adversarial availability attacks.
problem Improving adversarial availability attacks on neural networks.
method Gradient-based framework for crafting poisoned images at the class level.
result Demonstrated effectiveness of class-oriented poisoning attacks on various models and datasets.
This paper proposes multi-view attack strategies for deep models.
problem Vulnerability of multi-view deep models to adversarial attacks.
method Two multi-view attack strategies: two-stage attack (TSA) and end-to-end attack (ETEA).
result Proposed multi-view attack strategies are effective on multi-view deep models.
New method improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Adversarial attacks can deceive models trained with transfer learning.
method Noisy feature distillation method for random initialization.
result Models trained with random initialization are more robust to attacks.
Defense against backdoor attacks by clustering incompatible data subsets.
problem Backdoor poisoning attacks on deep neural networks.
method Incompatibility clustering of data subsets during training.
result Successfully reduces attack success rate to below 1%.
Data poisoning is an attack on machine learning models wherein the attacker adds examples to the training set to manipulate the behavior of the model at test time. This paper explores poisoning attacks on neural nets. The proposed attacks use "clean-labels"; they don't require the attacker to have any control over the …
In this letter, as a proof of concept, we propose a deep learning-based approach to attack the chaos-based image encryption algorithm in \cite{guan2005chaos}. The proposed method first projects the chaos-based encrypted images into the low-dimensional feature space, where essential information of plain images has been …
We study two important concepts in adversarial deep learning---adversarial training and generative adversarial network (GAN). Adversarial training is the technique used to improve the robustness of discriminator by combining adversarial attacker and discriminator in the training phase. GAN is commonly used for image ge…
MALCOM generates fake comments to fool fake news detectors.
problem Adversaries can manipulate fake news detection models with malicious comments.
method Proposes a novel threat model and develops an adversarial comment generation framework (MALCOM).
result MALCOM can fool fake news detectors 90-94% of the time, depending on the model and dataset.
CLEANN detects and mitigates neural network Trojans without labeled data.
problem Trojans in embedded neural networks that bypass detection during inference.
method Dictionary learning and sparse approximation for identifying Trojan triggers, lightweight algorithm/hardware co-design.
result Efficient real-time execution on resource-constrained platforms, competitive attack resiliency.
PRISM-FCP improves federated prediction robustness against Byzantine attacks.
problem Byzantine attacks in federated learning.
method Partial model sharing and distance-based maliciousness scores.
result Maintains nominal coverage guarantees under Byzantine attacks.
New defence against data-poisoning attacks in neural networks.
problem Data-poisoning attacks can evade existing defences and increase model efficacy.
method Proved geometric mechanism and identified near clone regime in input space.
result Regularisation and data augmentation reduce data fitting capacity and prevent poisoning.
Develops a robust training framework to detect backdoor attacks in DNNs.
problem Vulnerability of DNNs to backdoor attacks by poisoned training data.
method Collider framework selects prominent samples based on geometric structures and coreset selection objective.
result Significantly reduces backdoor success rate in various poisoned datasets.
BagCert efficiently certifies robustness against adversarial patches on image classifiers.
problem Adversarial patches pose a threat to autonomous systems' perception component.
method BagCert combines model architecture and certification procedure for efficient inference.
result BagCert certifies 10,000 examples in 43 seconds on a single GPU, achieving 86% clean and 60% certified accuracy against 5x5 patches.
New framework improves adversarial robustness in one-stage L2D.
problem Adversarial robustness in one-stage Learning-to-Defer (L2D).
method Formalizes attacks, proposes cost-sensitive adversarial surrogate losses, establishes theoretical guarantees.
result Improves robustness against untargeted and targeted attacks while preserving clean performance.
Deep neural networks enjoy a powerful representation and have proven effective in a number of applications. However, recent advances show that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks incurred by the so-called adversarial examples. Although the adversarial example is only slightly different from the i…
Recently, the development and implementation of phishing attacks require little technical skills and costs. This uprising has led to an ever-growing number of phishing attacks on the World Wide Web. Consequently, proactive techniques to fight phishing attacks have become extremely necessary. In this paper, we propose H…
MetaPoison poisons neural networks by learning to craft imperceptible changes to training data.
problem Data poisoning attacks on neural networks.
method MetaPoison uses meta-learning to approximate bilevel optimization for crafting poisons.
result MetaPoison outperforms previous methods and works in various scenarios.
New security patch for object tracking in self-driving cars mitigates vulnerabilities.
problem Vulnerability of object tracking in self-driving cars, especially Kalman Filter-based trackers.
method Adaptive strategy to balance focus on observations and predictions based on deviation anomaly index.
result Certified effectiveness against a generalized hijacking attack model.
Proposes a defense method against multiple adversarial video types.
problem Lack of multi-perturbation robustness in existing defense approaches.
method Adversarial training with multiple independent BN layers and a BN selection module.
result Demonstrates stronger multi-perturbation robustness against different adversarial video types.
This paper presents a simple yet efficient method for an anomaly-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS). In reality, IDSs can be defined as a one-class classification system, where the normal traffic is the target class. The high diversity of network attacks in addition to the need for generalization, motivate us to pr…
Computational paralinguistic analysis is increasingly being used in a wide range of cyber applications, including security-sensitive applications such as speaker verification, deceptive speech detection, and medical diagnostics. While state-of-the-art machine learning techniques, such as deep neural networks, can provi…
This work improves adversarial robustness by boosting model ensembles with margin maximization.
problem Single models are insufficient for defending against adversarial attacks.
method Margin-boosting approach to learn ensembles with maximum margin.
result Our algorithm outperforms existing ensembling techniques and large models trained end-to-end.
Following the publication of an attack on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) data proposed by Homer et al., considerable attention has been given to developing methods for releasing GWAS data in a privacy-preserving way. Here, we develop an end-to-end differentially private method for solving regression problems wi…
Paper proposes SDS for 5G security using machine learning.
problem Cybersecurity threats and expanding IoT in 5G networks.
method SDS uses machine learning, specifically a CNN with NAS, to detect anomalies.
result CNN achieved 100% accuracy in identifying benign traffic and 96.4% in detecting anomalies.
Recent advances in adversarial Deep Learning (DL) have opened up a largely unexplored surface for malicious attacks jeopardizing the integrity of autonomous DL systems. With the wide-spread usage of DL in critical and time-sensitive applications, including unmanned vehicles, drones, and video surveillance systems, onli…
Though deep learning has been applied successfully in many scenarios, malicious inputs with human-imperceptible perturbations can make it vulnerable in real applications. This paper proposes an error-correcting neural network (ECNN) that combines a set of binary classifiers to combat adversarial examples in the multi-c…
Adversarial perturbations are more effective in Y-channel of YCbCr color space.
problem Vulnerability of deep models to adversarial perturbations in images.
method Proposed ResUpNet defense that removes perturbations only from the Y-channel of YCbCr color space.
result ResUpNet achieves the best balance between defense and maintaining original image accuracy.
Paper generates diverse, readable adversarial texts from scratch.
problem Text classification models are easily fooled by adversarial examples.
method Trained a conditional variational autoencoder (VAE) with adversarial loss and utilized GANs to generate consistent adversarial texts.
result Successfully generates adversarial texts with higher success rate and acceptable quality.
"Feint Attack", as a new type of APT attack, has become the focus of attention. It adopts a multi-stage attacks mode which can be concluded as a combination of virtual attacks and real attacks. Under the cover of virtual attacks, real attacks can achieve the real purpose of the attacker, as a result, it often caused hu…
This paper studies adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits.
problem Adversarial attacks on Gaussian process bandits to manipulate optimal function regions.
method Proposes various adversarial attack methods on GP bandits, including white-box and black-box attacks.
result Adversarial attacks can force GP bandits to optima in target regions even with low attack budgets.
Subpopulation attacks poison data to misclassify naturally distributed points.
problem Improving accuracy of machine learning predictions through adversarial data modification.
method Introducing a novel subpopulation attack framework, using influence functions and gradient optimization.
result Subpopulation attacks are effective and stealthy, making them difficult to defend against.
Reward-poisoning attacks can force RL agents to learn bad policies, and we categorize and quantify their feasibility.
problem Reward-poisoning attacks can manipulate RL agents to learn undesirable policies.
method Categorize attacks by infinity-norm constraint, provide thresholds for feasibility, and develop adaptive attack strategies.
result Adaptive reward-poisoning attacks can achieve the nefarious policy in polynomial steps, while non-adaptive attacks require exponential steps.
Spanning attack improves black-box attacks with unlabeled data.
problem Query inefficiency in black-box attacks due to high input space dimensionality.
method Proposes spanning attack by constraining adversarial perturbations in a low-dimensional subspace via an auxiliary unlabeled dataset.
result Significantly improves query efficiency of black-box attacks.
Headless attacks bypass classification heads to fool transfer learning models.
problem Adversarial attacks against transfer learning models without access to the classification head.
method Label-blind adversarial attacks that do not require class-label information.
result Transfer attack lowers ResNet18 accuracy on CIFAR10 by over 40%.
New attack manipulates UCB algorithm, new defense algorithm reduces pseudo-regret.
problem Adversarial attacks on stochastic bandit algorithms.
method Introducing action-manipulation attacks and proposing a robust defense algorithm.
result Proposed defense algorithm reduces pseudo-regret to O(max{log T, A}).
This paper explores evasion attacks against Bayesian models.
problem Bayesian predictive models are vulnerable to evasion attacks.
method Developed gradient-based attacks for specific point predictions and entire posterior distributions.
result Optimal evasion attacks can be designed against Bayesian models.
Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep neural networks, especially in safety-critical applications.
problem Adversarial attacks can misclassify deep neural networks, leading to safety issues.
method Adversarial attacks are categorized into white-box and black-box attacks based on the attacker's knowledge. They can be targeted or non-targeted.
result Adversarial attacks are effective and can transfer between different models and real-world scenarios.
New approach deflects adversarial attacks by causing them to resemble target classes.
problem Ongoing cycle of stronger defenses being broken by more advanced attacks.
method Combines three detection mechanisms in Capsule Networks to achieve state-of-the-art performance on both standard and defense-aware attacks. Uses human study to show attacks can no longer be called adversarial.
result Attack images can no longer be called adversarial because they are classified the same way as humans do.
RayS attack improves hard-label adversarial attacks by reducing query complexity and identifying false robust models.
problem Challenges in hard-label adversarial attacks, especially in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
method Reformulates continuous problem into discrete problem without gradient estimation and uses a fast check step to eliminate unnecessary searches.
result Significantly reduces the number of queries needed for hard-label attacks and identifies false robust models.
Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent (PGD) can achieve relatively high attack success rates within moderate iterates. How…
New method handles uncertainty in adversarial attacks using ensemble noise simulation.
problem Uncertainty in adversarial attacks on neural networks.
method Simulates attacker's noisy perturbation using various gradient-based attack algorithms and a pre-processing Denoising Autoencoder (DAE) defense.
result Significant improvements in post-attack accuracy with the proposed ensemble-trained defense.
Control policies, trained using the Deep Reinforcement Learning, have been recently shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks introducing even very small perturbations to the policy input. The attacks proposed so far have been designed using heuristics, and build on existing adversarial example crafting techniques …