2022/11/09 by Omanshu Thapliyal, Inseok Hwang, Thapliyal, Omanshu +1 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies #FOS: Electrical engineering #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Software-Defined Networks and 5G #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.05203
openalex publication_date 2022/11/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Network Control Systems (NCSs) pose unique vulnerabilities to cyberattacks due to a heavy reliance on communication channels. These channels can be susceptible to eavesdropping, false data injection (FDI), and denial of service (DoS). As a result, smarter cyberattacks can employ a combination of techniques to cause degradation of the considered NCS performance. We consider a white-box cyberattack synthesis technique in which the attacker initially eavesdrops to gather system data, and constructs equivalent system model. We utilize the equivalent model to synthesize hybrid cyberattacks -- a combination of FDI and DoS attacks against the NCS. Reachable sets for the equivalent NCS model provide rapid, real-time directives towards selecting NCS agents to be attacked. The devised method provides a significantly more realistic approach toward cyberattack synthesis against NCSs with unknown parameters. We demonstrate the proposed method using a multi-aerial vehicle formation control scenario.