Backdooring Masked Diffusion Language Models

Masked diffusion language models MDLMs are emerging as a compelling new paradigm for text generation, but their training-time security remains largely unexplored. Existing backdoor attacks on Gaussian diffusion models or autoregressive language models do not directly apply to MDLMs because MDLMs...

RadEar: A Self-Supervised RF Backscatter System for Voice Eavesdropping and Separation

Eavesdropping on voice conversations presents a growing threat to personal privacy and information security. In this paper, we present RadEar, a novel RF backscatter-based system designed to enable covert voice eavesdropping through walls. RadEar consists of two key components: i a batteryless RF...

BDFirewall: Towards Effective and Expeditiously Black-Box Backdoor Defense in MLaaS

In this paper, we endeavor to address the challenges of backdoor attacks countermeasures in black-box scenarios, thereby fortifying the security of inference under MLaaS. We first categorize backdoor triggers from a new perspective, i.e., their impact on the patched area, and divide them into:...

Structure Disruption: Subverting Malicious Diffusion-Based Inpainting Via Self-Attention Query Perturbation

The rapid advancement of diffusion models has enhanced their image inpainting and editing capabilities but also introduced significant societal risks. Adversaries can exploit user images from social media to generate misleading or harmful content. While adversarial perturbations can disrupt...

CSI2Dig: Recovering Digit Content from Smartphone Loudspeakers Using Channel State Information

Eavesdropping on sounds emitted by mobile device loudspeakers can capture sensitive digital information, such as SMS verification codes, credit card numbers, and withdrawal passwords, which poses significant security risks. Existing schemes either require expensive specialized equipment, rely on...

Set You Straight: Auto-Steering Denoising Trajectories to Sidestep Unwanted Concepts

Ensuring the ethical deployment of text-to-image models requires effective techniques to prevent the generation of harmful or inappropriate content. While concept erasure methods offer a promising solution, existing finetuning-based approaches suffer from notable limitations. Anchor-free methods...