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Study detects and mitigates stealthy DDoS attacks in IoT networks.
Attackers can poison environments to force RL agents to follow target policies.
With the ever-increasing reliance on data for data-driven applications in power grids, such as event cause analysis, the authenticity of data streams has become crucially important. The data can be prone to adversarial stealthy attacks aiming to manipulate the data such that residual-based bad data detectors cannot det…
This paper addresses detection of a reverse engineering (RE) attack targeting a deep neural network (DNN) image classifier; by querying, RE's aim is to discover the classifier's decision rule. RE can enable test-time evasion attacks, which require knowledge of the classifier. Recently, we proposed a quite effective app…
StealthRank subtly boosts LLM rankings without detectable anomalies.
Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking attack on DNNs, where the adversary aims to misclassify certain input images into any target lab…
Deep learning architectures (DLA) have shown impressive performance in computer vision, natural language processing and so on. Many DLA make use of cloud computing to achieve classification due to the high computation and memory requirements. Privacy and latency concerns resulting from cloud computing has inspired the …
Subpopulation attacks poison data to misclassify naturally distributed points.
Low-rate application layer distributed denial of service (LDDoS) attacks are both powerful and stealthy. They force vulnerable webservers to open all available connections to the adversary, denying resources to real users. Mitigation advice focuses on solutions that potentially degrade quality of service for legitimate…
Paper proposes ZO-NGD for more efficient black-box attacks.
Study cyber-attacks on RL algorithms, focusing on cost signal manipulation.
Deep learning models have consistently outperformed traditional machine learning models in various classification tasks, including image classification. As such, they have become increasingly prevalent in many real world applications including those where security is of great concern. Such popularity, however, may attr…
3D models vulnerable to adversarial attacks, new method improves success rate and naturalness.
VERA-V uses variational inference to discover vulnerabilities in multimodal vision-language models.
RW-based learning is vulnerable to the Pac-Man attack, which eliminates active RWs.
Backdoor attacks are found to be effective against robust machine learning models trained with PGD.
Cronus securely transfers model parameters to protect federated learning from poisoning attacks.
Machine learning as a service (MLaaS), and algorithm marketplaces are on a rise. Data holders can easily train complex models on their data using third party provided learning codes. Training accurate ML models requires massive labeled data and advanced learning algorithms. The resulting models are considered as intell…
Despite achieving remarkable success in various domains, recent studies have uncovered the vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial perturbations, creating concerns on model generalizability and new threats such as prediction-evasive misclassification or stealthy reprogramming. Among different defense propo…
"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.
Reward-poisoning attacks can force RL agents to learn bad policies, and we categorize and quantify their feasibility.
Spanning attack improves black-box attacks with unlabeled data.
Headless attacks bypass classification heads to fool transfer learning models.
New attack manipulates UCB algorithm, new defense algorithm reduces pseudo-regret.
This paper explores evasion attacks against Bayesian models.
Adversarial attacks pose a threat to deep neural networks, especially in safety-critical applications.
New approach deflects adversarial attacks by causing them to resemble target classes.
RayS attack improves hard-label adversarial attacks by reducing query complexity and identifying 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.
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 …
New attacks reveal membership in label-only ML models.
Adversarial attacks for image classification are small perturbations to images that are designed to cause misclassification by a model. Adversarial attacks formally correspond to an optimization problem: find a minimum norm image perturbation, constrained to cause misclassification. A number of effective attacks have b…
This paper proposes multi-view attack strategies for deep models.
New attacks can infer model training membership using only label predictions, not confidence.
Pixle attacks images by rearranging pixels, bypassing neural networks.
Efficiently attacks large-scale graphs without using the whole graph.
Most state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. As a consequence, adversarial robustness poses a significant challenge for the deployment of ML-based systems in safety- and security-critical environments like autonomous driving, disease detection or unmann…
We introduce two tactics to attack agents trained by deep reinforcement learning algorithms using adversarial examples, namely the strategically-timed attack and the enchanting attack. In the strategically-timed attack, the adversary aims at minimizing the agent's reward by only attacking the agent at a small subset of…
A new method uses adversarial attacks to detect other adversarial attacks.
Study on reward poisoning attacks on CMAB, revealing attackability depends on adversary's knowledge.
Many machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to almost imperceptible perturbations of their inputs. So far it was unclear how much risk adversarial perturbations carry for the safety of real-world machine learning applications because most methods used to generate such perturbations rely either on detailed model inf…
New black-box attack method improves GNN defense without needing training data.
Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithms towards adversarial attacks in real world applications such as those deployed in cyber-physical systems (CPS) are of increasing concern. Numerous studies have investigated the mechanisms of attacks on the RL agent's state space. Nonetheless, attacks on the RL a…
Transferability captures the ability of an attack against a machine-learning model to be effective against a different, potentially unknown, model. Empirical evidence for transferability has been shown in previous work, but the underlying reasons why an attack transfers or not are not yet well understood. In this paper…
Recent studies show that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which attack DRL models by adding small perturbations to the observations. However, some attacks assume full availability of the victim model, and some require a huge amount of computation, making them less feasible…
This paper improves attacks on recommender systems by solving optimization problems more precisely.