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  • Open Access
40 Citations
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A Double Siamese Framework for Differential Morphing Attack Detection

  • Guido Borghi,
  • Emanuele Pancisi,
  • Matteo Ferrara and
  • Davide Maltoni

16 May 2021

Face morphing and related morphing attacks have emerged as a serious security threat for automatic face recognition systems and a challenging research field. Therefore, the availability of effective and reliable morphing attack detectors is strongly...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,525 Views
23 Pages

Can Differential Privacy Hinder Poisoning Attack Detection in Federated Learning?

  • Chaitanya Aggarwal,
  • Divya G. Nair,
  • Jafar Aco Mohammadi,
  • Jyothisha J. Nair and
  • Jörg Ott

We consider the problem of data poisoning attack detection in a federated learning (FL) setup with differential privacy (DP). Local DP in FL ensures that privacy leakage caused by shared gradients is controlled by adding randomness to the process. We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated Learning: Applications and Future Directions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,668 Views
14 Pages

31 December 2022

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is an emerging technology used to solve spectrum shortage problems in wireless communications. In CRN, unlicensed secondary users (SUs) and licensed primary users (PUs) use spectrum resources at the same time by avoiding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,992 Views
15 Pages

Face Morphing, a Modern Threat to Border Security: Recent Advances and Open Challenges

  • Erion-Vasilis Pikoulis,
  • Zafeiria-Marina Ioannou,
  • Mersini Paschou and
  • Evangelos Sakkopoulos

2 April 2021

Face morphing poses a serious threat to Automatic Border Control (ABC) and Face Recognition Systems (FRS) in general. The aim of this paper is to present a qualitative assessment of the morphing attack issue, and the challenges it entails, highlighti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pattern Recognition in Multimedia Signal Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,562 Views
28 Pages

The convergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems has created a new class of intelligent applications across healthcare, industrial automation, smart cities, and connected homes. However, this integration introduces...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies for Detecting Cybersecurity Attacks in Internet of Things Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,696 Views
23 Pages

18 October 2022

This work studies the power of adversarial attacks against machine learning algorithms that use differentially private mechanisms as their weapon. In our setting, the adversary aims to modify the content of a statistical dataset via insertion of addi...

(This article belongs to the Section Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,773 Views
22 Pages

A DRDoS Detection and Defense Method Based on Deep Forest in the Big Data Environment

  • Ruomeng Xu,
  • Jieren Cheng,
  • Fengkai Wang,
  • Xiangyan Tang and
  • Jinying Xu

11 January 2019

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) has developed multiple variants, one of which is Distributed Reflective Denial of Service (DRDoS). With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the threat of DRDoS attack is growing, and the dam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry Applications for Internet of Things Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,966 Views
27 Pages

Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Botnet Detection Using Differential Evolution for Optimized Feature Selection

  • Sangita Baruah,
  • Vaskar Deka,
  • Dulumani Das,
  • Utpal Barman and
  • Manob Jyoti Saikia

With the growing prevalence of cybercrime, botnets have emerged as a significant threat, infiltrating an increasing number of legitimate computers annually. Challenges arising for organizations, educational institutions, and individuals as a result o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,386 Views
17 Pages

10 March 2023

Adversarial example generation techniques for neural network models have exploded in recent years. In the adversarial attack scheme for image recognition models, it is challenging to achieve a high attack success rate with very few pixel modification...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Machine Learning with High-Dimensional Data and Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,572 Views
17 Pages

27 January 2023

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been employed in continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) systems as attacking detection portions of defense countermeasures. However, the vulnerability of DNNs leaves security loopholes for hacking attac...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,290 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Step Attack Detection Based on Pre-Trained Hidden Markov Models

  • Xu Zhang,
  • Ting Wu,
  • Qiuhua Zheng,
  • Liang Zhai and ,
  • Haizhong Hu,
  • Weihao Yin,
  • Yingpei Zeng and
  • Chuanhui Cheng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

8 April 2022

Currently, hidden Markov-based multi-step attack detection models are mainly trained using the unsupervised Baum–Welch algorithm. The Baum–Welch algorithm is sensitive to the initial values of model parameters. However, its training uses...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,468 Views
15 Pages

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant digital transformation. The widespread use of wireless communication in IoT has posed security challenges due to its vulnerability to cybercrime. The Indonesian National Police’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,607 Views
18 Pages

A Circuit-Level Solution for Secure Temperature Sensor

  • Mashrafi Alam Kajol,
  • Mohammad Mezanur Rahman Monjur and
  • Qiaoyan Yu

18 June 2023

Temperature sensors play an important role in modern monitoring and control applications. When more and more sensors are integrated into internet-connected systems, the integrity and security of sensors become a concern and cannot be ignored anymore....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security of Sensor Network Systems and Circuits from a Hardware Perspective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,619 Views
26 Pages

4 March 2024

This study introduces a deep-learning-based framework for detecting adversarial attacks in CT image segmentation within medical imaging. The proposed methodology includes analyzing features from various layers, particularly focusing on the first laye...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Analysis for Connected Health Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,969 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2021

The Deterministic Network (DetNet) is becoming a major feature for 5G and 6G networks to cope with the issue that conventional IT infrastructure cannot efficiently handle latency-sensitive data. The DetNet applies flow virtualization to satisfy time-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microprocessors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
15,252 Views
17 Pages

Entropy-Based Application Layer DDoS Attack Detection Using Artificial Neural Networks

  • Khundrakpam Johnson Singh,
  • Khelchandra Thongam and
  • Tanmay De

1 October 2016

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one of the major threats to the web server. The rapid increase of DDoS attacks on the Internet has clearly pointed out the limitations in current intrusion detection systems or intrusion prevention syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,645 Views
17 Pages

A Smart Sensor for Defending against Clock Glitching Attacks on the I2C Protocol in Robotic Applications

  • Raúl Jiménez-Naharro,
  • Fernando Gómez-Bravo,
  • Jonathan Medina-García,
  • Manuel Sánchez-Raya and
  • Juan Antonio Gómez-Galán

25 March 2017

This paper presents a study about hardware attacking and clock signal vulnerability. It considers a particular type of attack on the clock signal in the I2C protocol, and proposes the design of a new sensor for detecting and defending against this ty...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
438 Views
11 Pages

Modality-Shared Anti-Spoofing for Face and Fingerprint

  • Mohamed Cheniti,
  • Zahid Akhtar and
  • Chandranath Adak

4 September 2026

Multi-modal anti-spoofing aims to differentiate live users from spoofing attacks using multiple biometric modalities during model training. While existing anti-spoofing methods often incorporate just one biometric modality, the effectiveness of attac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimedia Data and Network Security: Emerging Trends and AI-Driven Threats and Defenses)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Views
35 Pages

Federated learning has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm that collaboratively trains a model without sharing raw data. However, federated learning remains highly vulnerable to abnormal or malicious participants. Differential privacy techniques...

(This article belongs to the Section Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
5,185 Views
20 Pages

16 June 2023

The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has led to a rise in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on these networks. These attacks can have severe consequences, resulting in the unavailability of cri...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,294 Views
25 Pages

Flow-Based IDS Features Enrichment for ICMPv6-DDoS Attacks Detection

  • Omar E. Elejla,
  • Mohammed Anbar,
  • Shady Hamouda,
  • Bahari Belaton and ,
  • Taief Alaa Al-Amiedy and
  • Iznan H. Hasbullah
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 December 2022

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) and its core protocol, Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6), need to be secured from attacks, such as Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS), in order to be reliable for deployment. Sever...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
390 Views
21 Pages

10 September 2026

Federated object detection over multi-site remote-sensing imagery faces two coupled risks that are not fully addressed by existing methods. Existing federated object-detection studies mainly focus on distributed training, communication efficiency, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,391 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2023

The adversarial attack is crucial to improving the robustness of deep learning models; they help improve the interpretability of deep learning and also increase the security of the models in real-world applications. However, existing attack algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Feature Papers from China Information Theory Conference (CIT) & the Annual Conference on Information Theory of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIEIT))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,809 Views
17 Pages

RISOPA: Rapid Imperceptible Strong One-Pixel Attacks in Deep Neural Networks

  • Wonhong Nam,
  • Kunha Kim,
  • Hyunwoo Moon,
  • Hyeongmin Noh and ,
  • Jiyeon Park and
  • Hyunyoung Kil
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 April 2024

Recent research has revealed that subtle imperceptible perturbations can deceive well-trained neural network models, leading to inaccurate outcomes. These instances, known as adversarial examples, pose significant threats to the secure application of...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,576 Views
22 Pages

An SQL Injection Attack (SQLIA) is a major cyber security threat to Web services, and its different stages can cause different levels of damage to an information system. Attackers can construct complex and diverse SQLIA statements, which often cause...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,918 Views
17 Pages

Robust Adversarial Example Detection Algorithm Based on High-Level Feature Differences

  • Hua Mu,
  • Chenggang Li,
  • Anjie Peng,
  • Yangyang Wang and
  • Zhenyu Liang

12 March 2025

The threat posed by adversarial examples (AEs) to deep learning applications has garnered significant attention from the academic community. In response, various defense strategies have been proposed, including adversarial example detection. A range...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Security for Emerging Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,504 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2025

This study aims to explore the optimal power allocation problem under Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in wireless communication networks. The Starkberg Equilibrium (SE) framework is employed to analyze the strategic interactions between d...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,165 Views
23 Pages

12 January 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly used in civilian and military applications, making their communication and control systems targets for cyber attacks. The emerging threat of quantum computing amplifies these risks. Quantum computers c...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,152 Views
45 Pages

Securing Smart Healthcare Cyber-Physical Systems against Blackhole and Greyhole Attacks Using a Blockchain-Enabled Gini Index Framework

  • Mannan Javed,
  • Noshina Tariq,
  • Muhammad Ashraf,
  • Farrukh Aslam Khan and ,
  • Muhammad Asim and
  • Muhammad Imran
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 November 2023

The increasing reliance on cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in critical domains such as healthcare, smart grids, and intelligent transportation systems necessitates robust security measures to protect against cyber threats. Among these threats, blackhol...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,263 Views
22 Pages

As network sizes grow, attack schemes not only become more varied but also increase in complexity. This diversification leads to a proliferation of attack variants, complicating the identification and differentiation of potential threats. Enhancing s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Security and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
842 Views
28 Pages

15 March 2026

Low-rate Denial-of-Service (LDoS) attacks exploit periodic traffic pulses to trigger congestion while maintaining a low average rate, making them highly stealthy and difficult to distinguish from legitimate bursty traffic using threshold-based or sim...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,083 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2023

Analyzing network traffic activities is imperative in network security to detect attack patterns. Due to the complex nature of network traffic event activities caused by continuously changing computing environments and software applications, identify...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Data and Information Security II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,370 Views
25 Pages

11 July 2022

Privacy regulations and the physical distribution of heterogeneous data are often primary concerns for the development of deep learning models in a medical context. This paper evaluates the feasibility of differentially private federated learning for...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,289 Views
23 Pages

26 March 2026

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms operating in contested environments face a critical “semantic gap” between raw, high-velocity network traffic and high-level mission security constraints, compounded by the risk of privacy leakage duri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyberspace Security Technology in Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,575 Views
30 Pages

An Explanation of the LSTM Model Used for DDoS Attacks Classification

  • Abdulmuneem Bashaiwth,
  • Hamad Binsalleeh and
  • Basil AsSadhan

31 July 2023

With the rise of DDoS attacks, several machine learning-based attack detection models have been used to mitigate malicious behavioral attacks. Understanding how machine learning models work is not trivial. This is particularly true for complex and no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
6,114 Views
25 Pages

A Hierarchical Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Architecture for Clustered Internet of Things

  • Rania Elsayed,
  • Reem Hamada,
  • Mohammad Hammoudeh,
  • Mahmoud Abdalla and
  • Shaimaa Ahmed Elsaid

The Internet of Things (IoT) system’s ever-expanding attack surface calls for a new intrusion detection system (IDS). These systems may include thousands of wireless devices that need to be protected from cyberattacks. Recent research efforts u...

(This article belongs to the Section Wireless Control Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
758 Views
29 Pages

14 February 2026

Automated insulator inspection systems face critical challenges from small object sizes, complex backgrounds, and vulnerability to adversarial attacks, a security concern largely unaddressed in safety-critical power infrastructure. We introduce Faste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,488 Views
12 Pages

26 November 2022

The adoption of deep learning-based solutions practically pervades all the diverse areas of our everyday life, showing improved performances with respect to other classical systems. Since many applications deal with sensible data and procedures, a st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Information in 2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,605 Views
30 Pages

XSShield: Defending Against Stored XSS Attacks Using LLM-Based Semantic Understanding

  • Yuan Zhou,
  • Enze Wang,
  • Wantong Yang,
  • Wenlin Ge and ,
  • Siyi Yang,
  • Yibo Zhang,
  • Wei Qu and
  • Wei Xie
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 March 2025

Cross-site scripting attacks represent one of the major security threats facing web applications, with Stored XSS attacks becoming the predominant form. Compared to reflected XSS, stored XSS attack payloads exhibit temporal and spatial asynchrony bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
430 Views
32 Pages

15 September 2026

Today, with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart home technology, new security issues have arisen, including device diversity, data privacy concerns, and susceptibility to advanced, complex attacks. Traditional Intrusion Detection S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Securing the Future: Computational Innovations in IoT Network Resilience and Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,243 Views
23 Pages

30 November 2025

In recent years, smart grid security has gained considerable attention. Numerous studies have proposed techniques to detect cyber-attacks using sensor data; however, limited attention has been given to distinguishing cyber intrusions from physical fa...

(This article belongs to the Section A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,869 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2024

The way we connect with the physical world has completely changed because of the advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT). However, there are several difficulties associated with this change. A significant advancement has been the emergence of int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Methods Applied to Security and Privacy Problems in Future Networking Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
295 Views
25 Pages

Towards Capability Development: A Layered Analysis of AIS Replay and Ghost Ship Attacks

  • Georgios Potamos,
  • Savvas Theodoulou,
  • Eliana Stavrou and
  • Stavros Stavrou

26 September 2026

The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is a fundamental component of modern Maritime Situational Awareness (MSA) systems, supporting navigation safety, vessel traffic management, and maritime surveillance. However, the absence of authentication, i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk and Safety of Maritime Transportation: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,807 Views
22 Pages

11 November 2022

Fingerprints have been used for decades to verify the identity of an individual for various security reasons. Attackers have developed many approaches to deceive a fingerprint verification system, ranging from the sensor level, where gummy fingers ar...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
301 Views
22 Pages

On-Device Is Not Private: Measuring Membership Leakage in Lightweight Sensor Anomaly Detectors

  • Manpinder Singh Panesar,
  • Aman Kataria,
  • Sita Rani,
  • Aditi Kataria and
  • Vikram Puri

Compressed-TinyML pipelines apply distillation, quantization and pruning to fit lightweight anomaly detectors onto resource-constrained sensor nodes. Such frameworks are routinely called privacy-aware on the strength of on-device inference or noisy f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Next-Generation TinyML: Innovations in Models, Security, and Applications for Constrained Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,492 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Adversarial Detection Method for UAV Vision Systems via Attribution Maps

  • Zhun Zhang,
  • Qihe Liu,
  • Chunjiang Wu,
  • Shijie Zhou and
  • Zhangbao Yan

7 December 2023

With the rapid advancement of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and the Internet of Things (IoTs), UAV-assisted IoTs has become integral in areas such as wildlife monitoring, disaster surveillance, and search and rescue operations. However, recent stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV-Assisted Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,889 Views
14 Pages

Novel Exploit Feature-Map-Based Detection of Adversarial Attacks

  • Ali Saeed Almuflih,
  • Dhairya Vyas,
  • Viral V. Kapdia,
  • Mohamed Rafik Noor Mohamed Qureshi and ,
  • Karishma Mohamed Rafik Qureshi and
  • Elaf Abdullah Makkawi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 May 2022

In machine learning (ML), adversarial attack (targeted or untargeted) in the presence of noise disturbs the model prediction. This research suggests that adversarial perturbations on pictures lead to noise in the features constructed by any networks....

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine and Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,420 Views
16 Pages

14 February 2020

Due to the emergence of online society, a representative user authentication method that is password authentication has been a key topic. However, in this authentication method, various attack techniques have emerged to steal passwords input from the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Threats, Challenges, and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,129 Views
28 Pages

An Improved Approach to DNS Covert Channel Detection Based on DBM-ENSec

  • Xinyu Li,
  • Xiaoying Wang,
  • Guoqing Yang,
  • Jinsha Zhang and ,
  • Chunhui Li,
  • Fangfang Cui and
  • Ruize Gu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The covert nature of DNS covert channels makes them a widely utilized method for data exfiltration by malicious attackers. In response to this challenge, the present study proposes a detection methodology for DNS covert channels that employs a Deep B...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,772 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2018

In this study, the effects of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles on the sulfate attack resistance of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and slag-blended mortars were investigated. OPC and slag-blended mortars (OPC:Slag = 50:50) were made with water to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Photoactive Nanomaterials in Degradation of Pollutants)

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