EC-LDA : Label Distribution Inference Attack against Federated Graph Learning with Embedding Compression

Graph Neural Networks GNNs have been widely used for graph analysis. Federated Graph Learning FGL is an emerging learning framework to collaboratively train graph data from various clients. However, since clients are required to upload model parameters to the server in each round, this provides t...

Reliable Disentanglement Multi-View Learning against View Adversarial Attacks

Trustworthy multi-view learning has attracted extensive attention because evidence learning can provide reliable uncertainty estimation to enhance the credibility of multi-view predictions. Existing trusted multi-view learning methods implicitly assume that multi-view data is secure. However, in...

Covert Attacks on Machine Learning Training in Passively Secure MPC

Secure multiparty computation MPC allows data owners to train machine learning models on combined data while keeping the underlying training data private. The MPC threat model either considers an adversary who passively corrupts some parties without affecting their overall behavior, or an adversa...

Neuromorphic Mimicry Attacks Exploiting Brain-Inspired Computing for Covert Cyber Intrusions

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the human brain's neural architecture, is revolutionizing artificial intelligence and edge computing with its low-power, adaptive, and event-driven designs. However, these unique characteristics introduce novel cybersecurity risks. This paper proposes...

Vulnerability of Transfer-Learned Neural Networks to Data Reconstruction Attacks in Small-Data Regime

Training data reconstruction attacks enable adversaries to recover portions of a released model's training data. We consider the attacks where a reconstructor neural network learns to invert the random mapping between training data and model weights. Prior work has shown that an informed adversar...

CSAGC-IDS: a Dual-Module Deep Learning Network Intrusion Detection Model for Complex and Imbalanced Data

As computer networks proliferate, the gravity of network intrusions has escalated, emphasizing the criticality of network intrusion detection systems for safeguarding security. While deep learning models have exhibited promising results in intrusion detection, they face challenges in managing...

Efficient Privacy-Preserving Cross-Silo Federated Learning with Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption

Federated Learning FL is susceptible to privacy attacks, such as data reconstruction attacks, in which a semi-honest server or a malicious client infers information about other clients' datasets from their model updates or gradients. To enhance the privacy of FL, recent studies combined Multi-Key...

WordPress plugin Masteriyo - LMS 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plug-in. A security vulnerability...

Traceable Black-Box Watermarks for Federated Learning

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FLTG: Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Via Angle-Based Defense and Non-IID-Aware Weighting

Byzantine attacks during model aggregation in Federated Learning FL threaten training integrity by manipulating malicious clients' updates. Existing methods struggle with limited robustness under high malicious client ratios and sensitivity to non-i.i.d. data, leading to degraded accuracy. To...

Cross-Cloud Data Privacy Protection: Optimizing Collaborative Mechanisms of AI Systems by Integrating Federated Learning and LLMs

In the age of cloud computing, data privacy protection has become a major challenge, especially when sharing sensitive data across cloud environments. However, how to optimize collaboration across cloud environments remains an unresolved problem. In this paper, we combine federated learning with...

Think Twice Before You Act: Enhancing Agent Behavioral Safety with Thought Correction

LLM-based autonomous agents possess capabilities such as reasoning, tool invocation, and environment interaction, enabling the execution of complex multi-step tasks. The internal reasoning process, i.e., thought, of behavioral trajectory significantly influences tool usage and subsequent actions...

PoLO: Proof-Of-Learning and Proof-Of-Ownership at Once with Chained Watermarking

Machine learning models are increasingly shared and outsourced, raising requirements of verifying training effort Proof-of-Learning, PoL to ensure claimed performance and establishing ownership Proof-of-Ownership, PoO for transactions. When models are trained by untrusted parties, PoL and PoO mus...

FL-PLAS: Federated Learning with Partial Layer Aggregation for Backdoor Defense against High-Ratio Malicious Clients

Federated learning FL is gaining increasing attention as an emerging collaborative machine learning approach, particularly in the context of large-scale computing and data systems. However, the fundamental algorithm of FL, Federated Averaging FedAvg, is susceptible to backdoor attacks. Although...

MalVis: a Large-Scale Image-Based Framework and Dataset for Advancing Android Malware Classification

As technology advances, Android malware continues to pose significant threats to devices and sensitive data. The open-source nature of the Android OS and the availability of its SDK contribute to this rapid growth. Traditional malware detection techniques, such as signature-based, static, and...

Coded Robust Aggregation for Distributed Learning under Byzantine Attacks

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributed learning DL in the presence of Byzantine attacks. For this problem, various robust bounded aggregation RBA rules have been proposed at the central server to mitigate the impact of Byzantine attacks. However, current DL methods apply RBA rul...

Friday Squid Blogging: Pet Squid Simulation

From Hackaday.com, this is a neural network simulation of a pet squid. Autonomous Behavior: The squid moves autonomously, making decisions based on his current state hunger, sleepiness, etc.. Implements a vision cone for food detection, simulating realistic foraging behavior. Neural network can...

PIG: Privacy Jailbreak Attack on LLMs Via Gradient-Based Iterative In-Context Optimization

Large Language Models LLMs excel in various domains but pose inherent privacy risks. Existing methods to evaluate privacy leakage in LLMs often use memorized prefixes or simple instructions to extract data, both of which well-alignment models can easily block. Meanwhile, Jailbreak attacks bypass...

GuardReasoner-VL: Safeguarding VLMs Via Reinforced Reasoning

To enhance the safety of VLMs, this paper introduces a novel reasoning-based VLM guard model dubbed GuardReasoner-VL. The core idea is to incentivize the guard model to deliberatively reason before making moderation decisions via online RL. First, we construct GuardReasoner-VLTrain, a reasoning...

The Ripple Effect: on Unforeseen Complications of Backdoor Attacks

Recent research highlights concerns about the trustworthiness of third-party Pre-Trained Language Models PTLMs due to potential backdoor attacks. These backdoored PTLMs, however, are effective only for specific pre-defined downstream tasks. In reality, these PTLMs can be adapted to many other...