Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems is drawing significant concerns as data communication increasingly leverages wireless networks. A lot of data-driven methods were develope for detecting cyberattacks, but few are focused on distinguishing them from equipment faults. In this paper, we develop a data-driven framework that can be used to detect, diagnose, and localize a type of cyberattack called covert attacks on networked industrial control systems. The framework has a hybrid design that combines a variational autoencoder (VAE), a recurrent neural network (RNN), and a Deep Neural Network (DNN). This data-driven framework considers the temporal behavior of a generic physical system that extracts features from the time series of the sensor measurements that can be used for detecting covert attacks, distinguishing them from equipment faults, as well as localize the attack/fault. We evaluate the performance of the proposed method through a realistic simulation study on a networked power transmission system as a typical example of ICS. We compare the performance of the proposed method with the traditional model-based method to show its applicability and efficacy.
Texas A&M University（德克萨斯A&M大学）；Arkansas State University（阿肯色州立大学）
As a highly complex and integrated cyber-physical system, modern power grids are exposed to cyberattacks. False data injection attacks (FDIAs), specifically, represent a major class of cyber threats to smart grids by targeting the measurement data's integrity. Although various solutions have been proposed to detect those cyberattacks, the vast majority of the works have ignored the inherent graph structure of the power grid measurements and validated their detectors only for small test systems with less than a few hundred buses. To better exploit the spatial correlations of smart grid measurem…
Texas A&M University（德克萨斯农工大学）；Arkansas State University（阿肯色州立大学）
This study employs Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to efficiently model the inherent graph network structure of the smart grid data to address the cyberattack localization problem. First, we numerically analyze the empirical frequency response of the Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and IIR graph filters (GFs) to approximate an ideal spectral response. We show that, for the same filter order, IIR GFs provide a better approximation to the desired spectral response and they also present the same level of approximation to a lower order GF due to their rational type filter…
Cyberattacks can cause a severe impact on power systems unless detected early. However, accurate and timely detection in critical infrastructure systems presents challenges, e.g., due to zero-day vulnerability exploitations and the cyber-physical nature of the system coupled with the need for high reliability and resilience of the physical system. Conventional rule-based and anomaly-based intrusion detection system (IDS) tools are insufficient for detecting zero-day cyber intrusions in the industrial control system (ICS) networks. Hence, in this work, we show that fusing information from multi…
Smart grid (SG) is a complex cyber-physical system that utilizes modern cyber and physical equipment to run at an optimal operating point. Cyberattacks are the principal threats confronting the usage and advancement of the state-of-the-art systems. The advancement of SG has added a wide range of technologies, equipment, and tools to make the system more reliable, efficient, and cost-effective. Despite attaining these goals, the threat space for the adversarial attacks has also been expanded because of the extensive implementation of the cyber networks. Due to the promising computational and re…
Recent years have witnessed a rise in the frequency and intensity of cyberattacks targeted at critical infrastructure systems. This study designs a versatile, data-driven cyberattack detection platform for infrastructure systems cybersecurity, with a special demonstration in water sector. A deep generative model with variational inference autonomously learns normal system behavior and detects attacks as they occur. The model can process the natural data in its raw form and automatically discover and learn its representations, hence augmenting system knowledge discovery and reducing the need fo…
Symantec Research Labs（赛门铁克研究实验室）；Boston University（波士顿大学）
Despite the fact that cyberattacks are constantly growing in complexity, the research community still lacks effective tools to easily monitor and understand them. In particular, there is a need for techniques that are able to not only track how prominently certain malicious actions, such as the exploitation of specific vulnerabilities, are exploited in the wild, but also (and more importantly) how these malicious actions factor in as attack steps in more complex cyberattacks. In this paper we present ATTACK2VEC, a system that uses temporal word embeddings to model how attack steps are exploite…
This paper presents a study on detecting cyberattacks on industrial control systems (ICS) using unsupervised deep neural networks, specifically, convolutional neural networks. The study was performed on a SecureWater Treatment testbed (SWaT) dataset, which represents a scaled-down version of a real-world industrial water treatment plant. e suggest a method for anomaly detection based on measuring the statistical deviation of the predicted value from the observed value.We applied the proposed method by using a variety of deep neural networks architectures including different variants of convolu…
A Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Explainable Detection of Cyberattacks on EV Chargers
University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；Federal Technological University of Paraná（巴拉那联邦技术大学）；University of Guelph（圭尔夫大学）；Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering（康考迪亚信息系统工程学院）
Large Language Models for Detecting Cyberattacks on Smart Grid Protective Relays
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto（电气与计算机工程系，多伦多大学）；Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University（信息系统工程研究所（CIISE），康科迪亚大学）
With growing security and privacy concerns in the Smart Grid domain, intrusion detection on critical energy infrastructure has become a high priority in recent years. To remedy the challenges of privacy preservation and decentralized power zones with strategic data owners, Federated Learning (FL) has contemporarily surfaced as a viable privacy-preserving alternative which enables collaborative training of attack detection models without requiring the sharing of raw data. To address some of the technical challenges associated with conventional synchronous FL, this paper proposes FeDiSa, a novel…
University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi（河内越南国立大学工程技术大学）；Advanced Institute of Engineering and Technology (AVITECH)（高等工程技术研究院（AVITECH））
Federated Learning (FL) has recently become an effective approach for cyberattack detection systems, especially in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. By distributing the learning process across IoT gateways, FL can improve learning efficiency, reduce communication overheads and enhance privacy for cyberattack detection systems. Challenges in implementation of FL in such systems include unavailability of labeled data and dissimilarity of data features in different IoT networks. In this paper, we propose a novel collaborative learning framework that leverages Transfer Learning (TL) to overcome t…
Connected vehicles (CVs), because of the external connectivity with other CVs and connected infrastructure, are vulnerable to cyberattacks that can instantly compromise the safety of the vehicle itself and other connected vehicles and roadway infrastructure. One such cyberattack is the false information attack, where an external attacker injects inaccurate information into the connected vehicles and eventually can cause catastrophic consequences by compromising safety-critical applications like the forward collision warning. The occurrence and target of such attack events can be very dynamic, …
Industrial control systems are critical to the operation of industrial facilities, especially for critical infrastructures, such as refineries, power grids, and transportation systems. Similar to other information systems, a significant threat to industrial control systems is the attack from cyberspace---the offensive maneuvers launched by "anonymous" in the digital world that target computer-based assets with the goal of compromising a system's functions or probing for information. Owing to the importance of industrial control systems, and the possibly devastating consequences of being attack…
Incremental Causal Graph Learning for Online Cyberattack Detection in Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University（计算与增强智能学院，亚利桑那州立大学）；Institute for Information Sciences, University of Kansas（信息科学研究所，堪萨斯大学）
A classical computer works with ones and zeros, whereas a quantum computer uses ones, zeros, and superpositions of ones and zeros, which enables quantum computers to perform a vast number of calculations simultaneously compared to classical computers. In a cloud-supported cyber-physical system environment, running a machine learning application in quantum computers is often difficult, due to the existing limitations of the current quantum devices. However, with the combination of quantum-classical neural networks (NN), complex and high-dimensional features can be extracted by the classical NN …
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University（清华大学网络科学与网络空间研究院，北京信息科学与技术国家研究中心）
Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) are widely deployed for defending various cyberattacks. Existing learning-based NIDS mainly uses Neural Network (NN) as a classifier that relies on the quality and quantity of cyberattack data. Such NN-based approaches are also hard to interpret for improving efficiency and scalability. In this paper, we design a new local-global computation paradigm, FEDFOREST, a novel learning-based NIDS by combining the interpretable Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) and Federated Learning (FL) framework. Specifically, FEDFOREST is composed of …
Collaborative Learning for Cyberattack Detection in Blockchain Networks
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)（悉尼科技大学）；Advanced Institute of Engineering and Technology (AVITECH)（先进工程技术学院）；University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi（越南国家大学河内工程技术大学）；VNU Information Technology Institute（越南国家大学信息技术学院）
Hanoi University of Science and Technology（河内理工大学）；ENS（高等纺织与艺术学院（ENSATT））
Internet of Things and its applications are becoming commonplace with more devices, but always at risk of network security. It is therefore crucial for an IoT network design to identify attackers accurately, quickly and promptly. Many solutions have been proposed, mainly concerning secure IoT architectures and classification algorithms, but none of them have paid enough attention to reducing the complexity. Our proposal in this paper is an edge cloud architecture that fulfills the detection task right at the edge layer, near the source of the attacks for quick response, versatility, as well as…
In a connected transportation system, adaptive traffic signal controllers (ATSC) utilize real-time vehicle trajectory data received from vehicles through wireless connectivity (i.e., connected vehicles) to regulate green time. However, this wirelessly connected ATSC increases cyber-attack surfaces and increases their vulnerability to various cyber-attack modes, which can be leveraged to induce significant congestion in a roadway network. An attacker may receive financial benefits to create such a congestion for a specific roadway. One such mode is a 'sybil' attack in which an attacker creates …
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev（内盖夫本-古里安大学）；NEC（日本电气股份有限公司）
Although cyberattacks on machine learning (ML) production systems can be harmful, today, security practitioners are ill equipped, lacking methodologies and tactical tools that would allow them to analyze the security risks of their ML-based systems. In this paper, we performed a comprehensive threat analysis of ML production systems. In this analysis, we follow the ontology presented by NIST for evaluating enterprise network security risk and apply it to ML-based production systems. Specifically, we (1) enumerate the assets of a typical ML production system, (2) describe the threat model (i.e.…
