A Crowdsensing Intrusion Detection Dataset for Decentralized Federated Learning Models

This paper introduces a dataset and experimental study for decentralized federated learning DFL applied to IoT crowdsensing malware detection. The dataset comprises behavioral records from benign and eight malware families. A total of 21,582,484 original records were collected from system calls,...

A Distributed Generative AI Approach for Heterogeneous Multi-Domain Environments under Data Sharing Constraints

Federated Learning has gained increasing attention for its ability to enable multiple nodes to collaboratively train machine learning models without sharing their raw data. At the same time, Generative AI -- particularly Generative Adversarial Networks GANs -- have achieved remarkable success...

A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Advertising Personalization Incorporating Federated Learning and Differential Privacy

To mitigate privacy leakage and performance issues in personalized advertising, this paper proposes a framework that integrates federated learning and differential privacy. The system combines distributed feature extraction, dynamic privacy budget allocation, and robust model aggregation to balan...

PT-2025-29913 · Hollo · Hollo

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Hollo versions prior to 0.6.5 Description: Hollo is a federated single-user microblogging software designed to be federated through ActivityPub. Versions prior to 0.6.5 allow HTML form elements to be submitted, leading to a potential HTML...

A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning

Federated learning FL enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. However, its open-participation nature exposes it to data-poisoning attacks, in which malicious actors submit corrupted model updates to degrade the global model. Existing defens...

Safeguarding Federated Learning-Based Road Condition Classification

Federated Learning FL has emerged as a promising solution for privacy-preserving autonomous driving, specifically camera-based Road Condition Classification RCC systems, harnessing distributed sensing, computing, and communication resources on board vehicles without sharing sensitive image data...

Differentially Private Federated Low Rank Adaptation beyond Fixed-Matrix

Large language models LLMs typically require fine-tuning for domain-specific tasks, and LoRA offers a computationally efficient approach by training low-rank adapters. LoRA is also communication-efficient for federated LLMs when multiple users collaboratively fine-tune a global LLM model without...

HASSLE: a Self-Supervised Learning Enhanced Hijacking Attack on Vertical Federated Learning

Vertical Federated Learning VFL enables an orchestrating active party to perform a machine learning task by cooperating with passive parties that provide additional task-related features for the same training data entities. While prior research has leveraged the privacy vulnerability of VFL to...

AdeptHEQ-FL: Adaptive Homomorphic Encryption for Federated Learning of Hybrid Classical-Quantum Models with Dynamic Layer Sparing

Federated Learning FL faces inherent challenges in balancing model performance, privacy preservation, and communication efficiency, especially in non-IID decentralized environments. Recent approaches either sacrifice formal privacy guarantees, incur high overheads, or overlook quantum-enhanced...

FedP3E: Privacy-Preserving Prototype Exchange for Non-IID IoT Malware Detection in Cross-Silo Federated Learning

As IoT ecosystems continue to expand across critical sectors, they have become prominent targets for increasingly sophisticated and large-scale malware attacks. The evolving threat landscape, combined with the sensitive nature of IoT-generated data, demands detection frameworks that are both...

CVE-2025-42980: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal Federated Portal Network is vulnerable when a privileged user can upload untrusted or malicious content which, when deserialized, could potentially lead to a compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the host system...

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal Federated Portal Network 代码问题漏洞

SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal Federated Portal Network is a portal integration architecture from SAP, Germany. A code issue vulnerability exists in SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal Federated Portal Network, which originates from a privileged user being able to upload untrusted content...

PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing

In distributed networks, participants often face diverse and fast-evolving cyberattacks. This makes techniques based on Federated Learning FL a promising mitigation strategy. By only exchanging model updates, FL participants can collaboratively build detection models without revealing sensitive...

BackFed: an Efficient and Standardized Benchmark Suite for Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL systems are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries train their local models on poisoned data and submit poisoned model updates to compromise the global model. Despite numerous proposed attacks and defenses, divergent experimental settings, implementation errors, a...

Phantom Subgroup Poisoning: Stealth Attacks on Federated Recommender Systems

Federated recommender systems FedRec have emerged as a promising solution for delivering personalized recommendations while safeguarding user privacy. However, recent studies have demonstrated their vulnerability to poisoning attacks. Existing attacks typically target the entire user group, which...

SPA: Towards More Stealth and Persistent Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL has emerged as a leading paradigm for privacy-preserving distributed machine learning, yet the distributed nature of FL introduces unique security challenges, notably the threat of backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor strategies predominantly rely on end-to-end label...

Empowering Digital Agriculture: a Privacy-Preserving Framework for Data Sharing and Collaborative Research

Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. However, privacy concerns, such as adverse pricing, discrimination, and resource manipulation, deter farmers from...

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

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Can One Safety Loop Guard Them All? Agentic Guard Rails for Federated Computing

We propose Guardian-FC, a novel two-layer framework for privacy preserving federated computing that unifies safety enforcement across diverse privacy preserving mechanisms, including cryptographic back-ends like fully homomorphic encryption FHE and multiparty computation MPC, as well as statistic...

Network Structures As an Attack Surface: Topology-Based Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning

Federated learning systems increasingly rely on diverse network topologies to address scalability and organizational constraints. While existing privacy research focuses on gradient-based attacks, the privacy implications of network topology knowledge remain critically understudied. We conduct th...