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most citedConstrained Concealment Attacks against Reconstruction-based Anomaly Detectors in Industrial Control Systems

66 citations · 161 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CR2026

Towards Automated Cyber Threat Intelligence Elicitation in Underground Forums

Lorenzo Bossi, Federico Saccani, Francesco Panebianco +4

Cyber threat intelligence from underground forums has traditionally relied on passive monitoring. However, as users have become more aware of large-scale data collection, valuable…

cs.CR2025

On the (In)Security of Loading Machine Learning Models

Gabriele Digregorio, Marco Di Gennaro, Stefano Zanero +2

The rise of model sharing through frameworks and dedicated hubs makes Machine Learning significantly more accessible. Despite its benefits, loading shared models exposes users to u…

cs.CR2025

LeakSealer: A Semisupervised Defense for LLMs Against Prompt Injection and Leakage Attacks

Francesco Panebianco, Stefano Bonfanti, Francesco Trovò +1

The generalization capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their widespread deployment across various applications. However, this increased adoption has introduced…

cs.CR2025

TimberStrike: Dataset Reconstruction Attack Revealing Privacy Leakage in Federated Tree-Based Systems

Marco Di Gennaro, Giovanni De Lucia, Stefano Longari +2

Federated Learning has emerged as a privacy-oriented alternative to centralized Machine Learning, enabling collaborative model training without direct data sharing. While extensive…

cs.CR2025★ 20 cited

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Davide Maffiola, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati +2

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) technology has advanced during the past years, and it is now used for several applications that require vehicles to exchange real-time dat…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

CyFence: Securing Cyber-Physical Controllers via Trusted Execution Environment

Stefano Longari, Alessandro Pozone, Jessica Leoni +4

In the last decades, Cyber-physical Systems (CPSs) have experienced a significant technological evolution and increased connectivity, at the cost of greater exposure to cyber-attac…

cs.CR2025★ 4 cited

Assessing the Resilience of Automotive Intrusion Detection Systems to Adversarial Manipulation

Stefano Longari, Paolo Cerracchio, Michele Carminati +1

The security of modern vehicles has become increasingly important, with the controller area network (CAN) bus serving as a critical communication backbone for various Electronic Co…

cs.CR2025★ 6 cited

Evaluating the Impact of Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning on CAN Intrusion Detection

Gabriele Digregorio, Elisabetta Cainazzo, Stefano Longari +2

The challenges derived from the data-intensive nature of machine learning in conjunction with technologies that enable novel paradigms such as V2X and the potential offered by 5G c…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

How stealthy is stealthy? Studying the Efficacy of Black-Box Adversarial Attacks in the Real World

Francesco Panebianco, Mario D'Onghia, Stefano Zanero aand Michele Carminati

Deep learning systems, critical in domains like autonomous vehicles, are vulnerable to adversarial examples (crafted inputs designed to mislead classifiers). This study investigate…

cs.CR2025

Poster: FedBlockParadox -- A Framework for Simulating and Securing Decentralized Federated Learning

Gabriele Digregorio, Francesco Bleggi, Federico Caroli +3

A significant body of research in decentralized federated learning focuses on combining the privacy-preserving properties of federated learning with the resilience and transparency…

cs.CR2025★ 4 cited

Tarallo: Evading Behavioral Malware Detectors in the Problem Space

Gabriele Digregorio, Salvatore Maccarrone, Mario D'Onghia +4

Machine learning algorithms can effectively classify malware through dynamic behavior but are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Existing attacks, however, often fail to find an e…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

PackHero: A Scalable Graph-based Approach for Efficient Packer Identification

Marco Di Gennaro, Mario D'Onghia, Mario Polino +2

Anti-analysis techniques, particularly packing, challenge malware analysts, making packer identification fundamental. Existing packer identifiers have significant limitations: sign…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Amatriciana: Exploiting Temporal GNNs for Robust and Efficient Money Laundering Detection

Marco Di Gennaro, Francesco Panebianco, Marco Pianta +2

Money laundering is a financial crime that poses a serious threat to financial integrity and social security. The growing number of transactions makes it necessary to use automatic…

quant-ph2025★ 24 cited

Evaluating the Potential of Quantum Machine Learning in Cybersecurity: A Case-Study on PCA-based Intrusion Detection Systems

Armando Bellante, Tommaso Fioravanti, Michele Carminati +2

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize our understanding of the limits of computation, and its implications in cryptography have long been evident. Today, cryptographers are a…

cs.CR2024

An Anomaly Detection System Based on Generative Classifiers for Controller Area Network

Chunheng Zhao, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati +1

As electronic systems become increasingly complex and prevalent in modern vehicles, securing onboard networks is crucial, particularly as many of these systems are safety-critical.…

cs.CR2024★ 10 cited

The Illusion of Randomness: An Empirical Analysis of Address Space Layout Randomization Implementations

Lorenzo Binosi, Gregorio Barzasi, Michele Carminati +2

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a crucial defense mechanism employed by modern operating systems to mitigate exploitation by randomizing processes' memory layouts. How…

cs.CR2022★ 21 cited

CANflict: Exploiting Peripheral Conflicts for Data-Link Layer Attacks on Automotive Networks

Alvise de Faveri Tron, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati +2

Current research in the automotive domain has proven the limitations of the CAN protocol from a security standpoint. Application-layer attacks, which involve the creation of malici…

cs.CR2022

CANdito: Improving Payload-based Detection of Attacks on Controller Area Networks

Stefano Longari, Alessandro Nichelini, Carlo Alberto Pozzoli +2

Over the years, the increasingly complex and interconnected vehicles raised the need for effective and efficient Intrusion Detection Systems against on-board networks. In light of…

cs.CR2019★ 66 cited

Constrained Concealment Attacks against Reconstruction-based Anomaly Detectors in Industrial Control Systems

Alessandro Erba, Riccardo Taormina, Stefano Galelli +4

Recently, reconstruction-based anomaly detection was proposed as an effective technique to detect attacks in dynamic industrial control networks. Unlike classical network anomaly d…