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Vulnerability Disclosure through Adaptive Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on NIDS

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  • Haebom

Author

Sabrine Ennaji, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Luigi V. Mancini

Outline

In this paper, we propose a novel black-box approach to adversarial attacks on structured data such as network traffic. To overcome the dependency on system access rights and repetitive exploration of previous studies, we present a method to minimize interactions for detection evasion and real-world scenario reflection. Sensitive features are identified and perturbed through an adaptive feature selection strategy using changepoint detection and causal analysis. The lightweight design results in low computational cost and easy deployment, and experiments demonstrate detection evasion, adaptability, and practical applicability.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
A novel approach to black-box adversarial attacks on network traffic
Demonstrating the possibility of effective attack without system access privileges
Improving the effectiveness and adaptability of attacks through adaptive feature selection strategies
Presenting a practical attack method applicable to real environments
Laying the foundation for developing a strong defense system
Limitations:
Further research is needed on the generalization performance of the proposed method.
Extensive experimentation is needed on different types of network traffic.
Need to assess dependency on specific network environment
Research on countermeasures against more sophisticated defense techniques is needed.
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