Publications related to Cyberattack

On the (In)security of Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Machine Learning

Carmela González Troncoso, Mathilde Aliénor Raynal, Dario Pasquini

In this work, we carry out the first, in-depth, privacy analysis of Decentralized Learning-a collaborative machine learning framework aimed at addressing the main limitations of federated learning. We introduce a suite of novel attacks for both passive and ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

A Deep-Learning Approach to Side-Channel Based CPU Disassembly at Design Time

Mirjana Stojilovic

Side-channel CPU disassembly is a side-channel attack that allows an adversary to recover instructions executed by a processor. Not only does such an attack compromise code confidentiality, it can also reveal critical information on the system’s internals. ...

IEEE2022

Data-driven and Safe Networked Control with Applications to Microgrids

Mustafa Sahin Turan

Today, automatic control is integrated into a wide spectrum of real-world systems such as electrical grids and transportation networks. Many of these systems comprise numerous interconnected agents, perform safety-critical operations, or generate large amo ...

EPFL2022

Safeguarding the IoT From Malware Epidemics: A Percolation Theory Approach

Ainur Zhaikhan

The upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen to encompass massive numbers of connected devices, smart objects, and cyber-physical systems. Due to the large scale and massive deployment of devices, it is deemed infeasible to safeguard 100% of the devic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Built-in Self-Evaluation of First-Order Power Side-Channel Leakage for FPGAs

Francesco Regazzoni, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Louis Coulon

Embedded and cyber-physical systems are pervading all aspects of our lives, including sensitive and critical ones. As a result, they are an alluring target for cyber attacks. These systems, whose implementation is often based on reconfigurable hardware, ar ...

2020

A Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection Scheme With Application to DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Mustafa Sahin Turan

DC microgrids often present a hierarchical control architecture, requiring integration of communication layers. This leads to the possibility of malicious attackers disrupting the overall system. Motivated by this application, in this article, we present a ...

2020

Healthy Operator 4.0: A Human Cyber-Physical System Architecture for Smart Workplaces

Xiaochen Zheng

Recent advances in technology have empowered the widespread application of cyber-physical systems in manufacturing and fostered the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In the factories of the future, it is possible that all items, including operators, will be equipped ...

2020

Biometric Face Presentation Attack Detection with Multi-Channel Convolutional Neural Network

Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Zohreh Mostaani

Face recognition is a mainstream biometric authentication method. However, vulnerability to presentation attacks (a.k.a spoofing) limits its usability in unsupervised applications. Even though there are many methods available for tackling presentation atta ...

2020

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

2018

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

IEEE2018

Generating Safety Guidance for Medical Injection with Three-Compartment Pharmacokinetics Model

Giovanni De Micheli, Francesca Stradolini, Heinz Riener, Cunxi Yu

Medical cyber-physical systems are a new trend of software controlled physical systems that are increasingly common in medical domains. With rapid developments in medical science and computer technology, safety verification and simulation becomes more chal ...

IEEE2018

A distributed attack detection method for multi-agent systems governed by consensus-based control

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks for distributed control schemes. A distributed methodology is proposed to detect the presence of malicious attacks aimed at compromising the stability of large-s ...

IEEE2017

Cybersecurity Solutions for Active Power Distribution Networks

Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

An active distribution network (ADN) is an electrical-power distribution network that implements a real-time monitoring and control of the electrical resources and the grid. Effective monitoring and control is realised by deploying a large number of sensin ...

EPFL2017

Cyber-Medical Systems: Requirements, Components and Design Examples

Giovanni De Micheli

Cyber-medical systems will produce a major revolution in health care, by both raising the quality of care and reducing its cost, thus reaching an important social and economic goal. The evolution of electronic devices and systems has already enabled societ ...

2017

Intrusion-Damage Assessment and Mitigation in Cyber-Physical Systems for Control Applications

Amir Aminifar

With cyber-physical systems opening to the outside world, security can no longer be considered a secondary issue. One of the key aspects in security of cyber-phyiscal systems is to deal with intrusions. In this paper, we highlight the several unique proper ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Governing Cyber Security Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Application to Connected Vehicles and Medical Devices

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Creating trust in connectivity including confidentiality, integrity and availability will be key to achieving the promises of the IoT, at least in the automotive and medical sector. Assessing vulnerability, implementing and assessing security controls, des ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2016

Cyber-attack on Packet-Based Time Synchronization Protocols: the Undetectable Delay Box

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Aswin Suresh, Sergio Barreto Andrade

We present a cyber-attack on packet-based time synchronization protocols (PBTSP) with high-accuracy requirements. The cyber-attack is undetectable from the PBTSP's perspective and exploits a vulnerability that is in the nature of all PBTSPs. It can be succ ...

Ieee2016

Real-Time State Estimation of the EPFL-Campus Medium-Voltage Grid by Using PMUs

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Styliani Sarri, German Dario Flores Ponce, Miroslav Popovic, Maaz Mashood Mohiuddin

We describe the real-time monitoring infrastructure of the smart-grid pilot on the EPFL campus. We experimentally validate the concept of a real-time state-estimation for a 20 kV active distribution network. We designed and put into operation the whole inf ...

2015

Computer Aided Cryptanalysis from Ciphers to Side Channels

Martin Vuagnoux

In this dissertation, we study the security of cryptographic protocols and cryptosystems from the mathematical definition of the primitives, up to their physical implementations in the real world. We propose a representation of the chronological design usi ...

EPFL2010

Challenges in Remote Laboratory Sustainability

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

Remote experimentation facilities have been accessible from the Internet for more than a decade. However, sustainability of such services is not adequately ensured in many academic institutions. The major challenge lies in moving from a single research set ...

2007