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most citedDecentralized Federated Learning: Fundamentals, State of the Art, Frameworks, Trends, and Challenges

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cs.CR2025

A Crowdsensing Intrusion Detection Dataset For Decentralized Federated Learning Models

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Jing Han +6

This paper introduces a dataset and an experimental study on Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) for Internet of Things (IoT) crowdsensing malware detection. The dataset compris…

cs.CR2024

Leveraging MTD to Mitigate Poisoning Attacks in Decentralized FL with Non-IID Data

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Zien Zeng +4

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL), a paradigm for managing big data in a privacy-preserved manner, is still vulnerable to poisoning attacks where malicious clients tamper with…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Asset-centric Threat Modeling for AI-based Systems

Jan von der Assen, Jamo Sharif, Chao Feng +3

Threat modeling is a popular method to securely develop systems by achieving awareness of potential areas of future damage caused by adversaries. However, threat modeling for syste…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

GuardFS: a File System for Integrated Detection and Mitigation of Linux-based Ransomware

Jan von der Assen, Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdrán +3

Although ransomware has received broad attention in media and research, this evolving threat vector still poses a systematic threat. Related literature has explored their detection…

cs.CR2023

Voyager: MTD-Based Aggregation Protocol for Mitigating Poisoning Attacks on DFL

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Michael Vuong +2

The growing concern over malicious attacks targeting the robustness of both Centralized and Decentralized Federated Learning (FL) necessitates novel defensive strategies. In contra…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

CyberForce: A Federated Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malware Mitigation

Chao Feng, Alberto Huertas Celdran, Pedro Miguel Sanchez Sanchez +5

Recent research has shown that the integration of Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Moving Target Defense (MTD) can enhance cybersecurity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Nevert…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Mitigating Communications Threats in Decentralized Federated Learning through Moving Target Defense

Enrique Tomás Martínez Beltrán, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Sergio López Bernal +4

The rise of Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) has enabled the training of machine learning models across federated participants, fostering decentralized model aggregation and…

cs.CR2023★ 6 cited

RansomAI: AI-powered Ransomware for Stealthy Encryption

Jan von der Assen, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Janik Luechinger +4

Cybersecurity solutions have shown promising performance when detecting ransomware samples that use fixed algorithms and encryption rates. However, due to the current explosion of…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

MTFS: a Moving Target Defense-Enabled File System for Malware Mitigation

Jan von der Assen, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Rinor Sefa +2

Ransomware has remained one of the most notorious threats in the cybersecurity field. Moving Target Defense (MTD) has been proposed as a novel paradigm for proactive defense. Altho…

cs.CR2023

Single-board Device Individual Authentication based on Hardware Performance and Autoencoder Transformer Models

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Gérôme Bovet +1

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the emergence of crowdsensing applications, where a multitude of interconnected devices collaboratively collect and ana…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

FederatedTrust: A Solution for Trustworthy Federated Learning

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Ning Xie +3

The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Edge Computing has presented challenges for centralized Machine and Deep Learning (ML/DL) methods due to the presence of dis…

cs.CR2022★ 2 cited

Adversarial attacks and defenses on ML- and hardware-based IoT device fingerprinting and identification

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Gérôme Bovet +1

In the last years, the number of IoT devices deployed has suffered an undoubted explosion, reaching the scale of billions. However, some new cybersecurity issues have appeared toge…

cs.CR2022★ 21 cited

RL and Fingerprinting to Select Moving Target Defense Mechanisms for Zero-day Attacks in IoT

Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Jan von der Assen +4

Cybercriminals are moving towards zero-day attacks affecting resource-constrained devices such as single-board computers (SBC). Assuming that perfect security is unrealistic, Movin…

cs.CR2022★ 13 cited

A Lightweight Moving Target Defense Framework for Multi-purpose Malware Affecting IoT Devices

Jan von der Assen, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez +4

Malware affecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices is rapidly growing due to the relevance of this paradigm in real-world scenarios. Specialized literature has also detected a tren…

cs.CR2022★ 31 cited

Studying the Robustness of Anti-adversarial Federated Learning Models Detecting Cyberattacks in IoT Spectrum Sensors

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Timo Schenk +4

Device fingerprinting combined with Machine and Deep Learning (ML/DL) report promising performance when detecting cyberattacks targeting data managed by resource-constrained spectr…

cs.CR2022★ 10 cited

CyberSpec: Intelligent Behavioral Fingerprinting to Detect Attacks on Crowdsensing Spectrum Sensors

Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Gérôme Bovet +2

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a novel paradigm using crowdsensing spectrum sensors to help with the management of spectrum scarcity. However, well-known vulnerabil…

cs.CR2021★ 10 cited

Robust Federated Learning for execution time-based device model identification under label-flipping attack

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, José Rafael Buendía Rubio +2

The computing device deployment explosion experienced in recent years, motivated by the advances of technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) and 5G, has led to a global scenar…

cs.CR2021★ 18 cited

A methodology to identify identical single-board computers based on hardware behavior fingerprinting

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, José María Jorquera Valero, Alberto Huertas Celdrán +3

The connectivity and resource-constrained nature of single-board devices open the door to cybersecurity concerns affecting Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. One of the most impor…

cs.CR2021★ 13 cited

Federated Learning for Malware Detection in IoT Devices

Valerian Rey, Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Alberto Huertas Celdrán +2

This work investigates the possibilities enabled by federated learning concerning IoT malware detection and studies security issues inherent to this new learning paradigm. In this…

cs.CR2020★ 142 cited

A Survey on Device Behavior Fingerprinting: Data Sources, Techniques, Application Scenarios, and Datasets

Pedro Miguel Sánchez Sánchez, Jose María Jorquera Valero, Alberto Huertas Celdrán +3

In the current network-based computing world, where the number of interconnected devices grows exponentially, their diversity, malfunctions, and cybersecurity threats are increasin…