StratFL: Countering Covert Model Poisoning Attacks with Strategic Federated Learning

Advanced persistent threats APTs are a major concern in federated learning FL deployments in critical sectors such as healthcare, and finance. Traditional defense mechanisms fail to contain APTs due to their intermittent attacking behavior. This paper addresses a specific type of APT called cover...

ADAPTD: Adaptive Detection and Proactive Threat Defense for Autonomous APT Attacks

Advanced persistent threat APT actors increasingly employ sophisticated techniques to propagate laterally through segmented enterprise networks. Timely detection and defense depend on cross-subnetwork coordination, yet maintaining global situational awareness generates substantial communication...