This paper asks the intriguing question: is it possible to exploit neural architecture search (NAS) as a new attack vector to launch previously improbable attacks? Specifically, we present EVAS, a new attack that leverages NAS to find neural architectures with inherent backdoors and exploits such vulnerability using input-aware triggers. Compared with existing attacks, EVAS demonstrates many interesting properties: (i) it does not require polluting training data or perturbing model parameters; (ii) it is agnostic to downstream fine-tuning or even re-training from scratch; (iii) it naturally evades defenses that rely on inspecting model parameters or training data. With extensive evaluation on benchmark datasets, we show that EVAS features high evasiveness, transferability, and robustness, thereby expanding the adversary's design spectrum. We further characterize the mechanisms underlying EVAS, which are possibly explainable by architecture-level ``shortcuts'' that recognize trigger patterns. This work raises concerns about the current practice of NAS and points to potential directions to develop effective countermeasures.

Backdoor attacks have emerged as one of the major security threats to deep learning models as they can easily control the model's test-time predictions by pre-injecting a backdoor trigger into the model at training time. While backdoor attacks have been extensively studied on images, few works have investigated the threat of backdoor attacks on time series data. To fill this gap, in this paper we present a novel generative approach for time series backdoor attacks against deep learning based time series classifiers. Backdoor attacks have two main goals: high stealthiness and high attack success rate. We find that, compared to images, it can be more challenging to achieve the two goals on time series. This is because time series have fewer input dimensions and lower degrees of freedom, making it hard to achieve a high attack success rate without compromising stealthiness. Our generative approach addresses this challenge by generating trigger patterns that are as realistic as real-time series patterns while achieving a high attack success rate without causing a significant drop in clean accuracy. We also show that our proposed attack is resistant to potential backdoor defenses. Furthermore, we propose a novel universal generator that can poison any type of time series with a single generator that allows universal attacks without the need to fine-tune the generative model for new time series datasets.

Backdoor attacks represent one of the major threats to machine learning models. Various efforts have been made to mitigate backdoors. However, existing defenses have become increasingly complex and often require high computational resources or may also jeopardize models' utility. In this work, we show that fine-tuning, one of the most common and easy-to-adopt machine learning training operations, can effectively remove backdoors from machine learning models while maintaining high model utility. Extensive experiments over three machine learning paradigms show that fine-tuning and our newly proposed super-fine-tuning achieve strong defense performance. Furthermore, we coin a new term, namely backdoor sequela, to measure the changes in model vulnerabilities to other attacks before and after the backdoor has been removed. Empirical evaluation shows that, compared to other defense methods, super-fine-tuning leaves limited backdoor sequela. We hope our results can help machine learning model owners better protect their models from backdoor threats. Also, it calls for the design of more advanced attacks in order to comprehensively assess machine learning models' backdoor vulnerabilities.

后门攻击已被证明是对深度学习模型的严重安全威胁，并且检测给定模型是否已成为后门成为至关重要的任务。现有的防御措施主要建立在观察到后门触发器通常尺寸很小或仅影响几个神经元激活的观察结果。但是，在许多情况下，尤其是对于高级后门攻击，违反了上述观察结果，阻碍了现有防御的性能和适用性。在本文中，我们提出了基于新观察的后门防御范围。也就是说，有效的后门攻击通常需要对中毒训练样本的高预测置信度，以确保训练有素的模型具有很高的可能性。基于此观察结果，Dtinspector首先学习一个可以改变最高信心数据的预测的补丁，然后通过检查在低信心数据上应用学习补丁后检查预测变化的比率来决定后门的存在。对五次后门攻击，四个数据集和三种高级攻击类型的广泛评估证明了拟议防御的有效性。

In this paper, we present a simple yet surprisingly effective technique to induce "selective amnesia" on a backdoored model. Our approach, called SEAM, has been inspired by the problem of catastrophic forgetting (CF), a long standing issue in continual learning. Our idea is to retrain a given DNN model on randomly labeled clean data, to induce a CF on the model, leading to a sudden forget on both primary and backdoor tasks; then we recover the primary task by retraining the randomized model on correctly labeled clean data. We analyzed SEAM by modeling the unlearning process as continual learning and further approximating a DNN using Neural Tangent Kernel for measuring CF. Our analysis shows that our random-labeling approach actually maximizes the CF on an unknown backdoor in the absence of triggered inputs, and also preserves some feature extraction in the network to enable a fast revival of the primary task. We further evaluated SEAM on both image processing and Natural Language Processing tasks, under both data contamination and training manipulation attacks, over thousands of models either trained on popular image datasets or provided by the TrojAI competition. Our experiments show that SEAM vastly outperforms the state-of-the-art unlearning techniques, achieving a high Fidelity (measuring the gap between the accuracy of the primary task and that of the backdoor) within a few minutes (about 30 times faster than training a model from scratch using the MNIST dataset), with only a small amount of clean data (0.1% of training data for TrojAI models).

视觉变压器（VITS）具有与卷积神经网络相比，具有较小的感应偏置的根本不同的结构。随着绩效的提高，VIT的安全性和鲁棒性也非常重要。与许多最近利用VIT反对对抗性例子的鲁棒性的作品相反，本文调查了代表性的病因攻击，即后门。我们首先检查了VIT对各种后门攻击的脆弱性，发现VIT也很容易受到现有攻击的影响。但是，我们观察到，VIT的清洁数据准确性和后门攻击成功率在位置编码之前对补丁转换做出了明显的反应。然后，根据这一发现，我们为VIT提出了一种通过补丁处理来捍卫基于补丁的触发后门攻击的有效方法。在包括CIFAR10，GTSRB和Tinyimagenet在内的几个基准数据集上评估了这些表演，这些数据表明，该拟议的新颖防御在减轻VIT的后门攻击方面非常成功。据我们所知，本文提出了第一个防御性策略，该策略利用了反对后门攻击的VIT的独特特征。

深度神经网络（DNN）无处不在的并且跨越各种应用范围从图像分类和面部识别到医学图像分析和实时对象检测。由于DNN模型变得更加复杂和复杂，培训这些模型的计算成本成为负担。出于这个原因，外包培训过程一直是许多DNN用户的转移选项。不幸的是，这是易受止回攻击的脆弱性的成本。这些攻击旨在在DNN中建立隐藏的后门，使得它在清洁样本上表现良好，但在将触发器应用于输入时输出特定的目标标签。当前的后门攻击在空间域中产生触发器;但是，正如我们在本文所展示的那样，它不是漏洞利用的域名，也应该始终“检查其他门”。据我们所知，这项工作是第一个提出用于在频域中生成空间动态（更改）和不可见的（低规范）后门攻击的管道的管道。我们展示利用频域来创造无法在各种数据集和网络架构上进行广泛实验创建未检测和强大的后门攻击的优势。与大多数空间域攻击不同，基于频率的后门攻击可以实现高攻击成功率，低中毒率，并且在表现不可察觉的情况下，仍然没有下降，而难以忍受。此外，我们表明，回顾式模型（我们的攻击中毒）对各种最先进的（SOTA）防御有抵抗力，因此我们有助于两种可能成功逃避攻击的防御。

计算能力和大型培训数据集的可用性增加，机器学习的成功助长了。假设它充分代表了在测试时遇到的数据，则使用培训数据来学习新模型或更新现有模型。这种假设受到中毒威胁的挑战，这种攻击会操纵训练数据，以损害模型在测试时的表现。尽管中毒已被认为是行业应用中的相关威胁，到目前为止，已经提出了各种不同的攻击和防御措施，但对该领域的完整系统化和批判性审查仍然缺失。在这项调查中，我们在机器学习中提供了中毒攻击和防御措施的全面系统化，审查了过去15年中该领域发表的100多篇论文。我们首先对当前的威胁模型和攻击进行分类，然后相应地组织现有防御。虽然我们主要关注计算机视觉应用程序，但我们认为我们的系统化还包括其他数据模式的最新攻击和防御。最后，我们讨论了中毒研究的现有资源，并阐明了当前的局限性和该研究领域的开放研究问题。

Dataset distillation has emerged as a prominent technique to improve data efficiency when training machine learning models. It encapsulates the knowledge from a large dataset into a smaller synthetic dataset. A model trained on this smaller distilled dataset can attain comparable performance to a model trained on the original training dataset. However, the existing dataset distillation techniques mainly aim at achieving the best trade-off between resource usage efficiency and model utility. The security risks stemming from them have not been explored. This study performs the first backdoor attack against the models trained on the data distilled by dataset distillation models in the image domain. Concretely, we inject triggers into the synthetic data during the distillation procedure rather than during the model training stage, where all previous attacks are performed. We propose two types of backdoor attacks, namely NAIVEATTACK and DOORPING. NAIVEATTACK simply adds triggers to the raw data at the initial distillation phase, while DOORPING iteratively updates the triggers during the entire distillation procedure. We conduct extensive evaluations on multiple datasets, architectures, and dataset distillation techniques. Empirical evaluation shows that NAIVEATTACK achieves decent attack success rate (ASR) scores in some cases, while DOORPING reaches higher ASR scores (close to 1.0) in all cases. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive ablation study to analyze the factors that may affect the attack performance. Finally, we evaluate multiple defense mechanisms against our backdoor attacks and show that our attacks can practically circumvent these defense mechanisms.

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is an emerging paradigm that enables collaborators to build machine learning models together in a distributed fashion. In general, these parties have a group of users in common but own different features. Existing VFL frameworks use cryptographic techniques to provide data privacy and security guarantees, leading to a line of works studying computing efficiency and fast implementation. However, the security of VFL's model remains underexplored.

图形神经网络（GNNS）在许多图形挖掘任务中取得了巨大的成功，这些任务从消息传递策略中受益，该策略融合了局部结构和节点特征，从而为更好的图表表示学习。尽管GNN成功，并且与其他类型的深神经网络相似，但发现GNN容易受到图形结构和节点特征的不明显扰动。已经提出了许多对抗性攻击，以披露在不同的扰动策略下创建对抗性例子的GNN的脆弱性。但是，GNNS对成功后门攻击的脆弱性直到最近才显示。在本文中，我们披露了陷阱攻击，这是可转移的图形后门攻击。核心攻击原则是用基于扰动的触发器毒化训练数据集，这可以导致有效且可转移的后门攻击。图形的扰动触发是通过通过替代模型的基于梯度的得分矩阵在图形结构上执行扰动动作来生成的。与先前的作品相比，陷阱攻击在几种方面有所不同：i）利用替代图卷积网络（GCN）模型来生成基于黑盒的后门攻击的扰动触发器； ii）它产生了没有固定模式的样品特异性扰动触发器； iii）在使用锻造中毒训练数据集训练时，在GNN的背景下，攻击转移到了不同​​的GNN模型中。通过对四个现实世界数据集进行广泛的评估，我们证明了陷阱攻击使用四个现实世界数据集在四个不同流行的GNN中构建可转移的后门的有效性

后门攻击已成为深度神经网络（DNN）的主要安全威胁。虽然现有的防御方法在检测或擦除后以后展示了有希望的结果，但仍然尚不清楚是否可以设计强大的培训方法，以防止后门触发器首先注入训练的模型。在本文中，我们介绍了\ emph {反后门学习}的概念，旨在培训\ emph {Clean}模型给出了后门中毒数据。我们将整体学习过程框架作为学习\ emph {clean}和\ emph {backdoor}部分的双重任务。从这种观点来看，我们确定了两个后门攻击的固有特征，因为他们的弱点2）后门任务与特定类（后门目标类）相关联。根据这两个弱点，我们提出了一般学习计划，反后门学习（ABL），在培训期间自动防止后门攻击。 ABL引入了标准培训的两级\ EMPH {梯度上升}机制，帮助分离早期训练阶段的后台示例，2）在后续训练阶段中断后门示例和目标类之间的相关性。通过对多个基准数据集的广泛实验，针对10个最先进的攻击，我们经验证明，后卫中毒数据上的ABL培训模型实现了与纯净清洁数据训练的相同性能。代码可用于\ url {https:/github.com/boylyg/abl}。

深度神经网络（DNNS）在训练过程中容易受到后门攻击的影响。该模型以这种方式损坏正常起作用，但是当输入中的某些模式触发时，会产生预定义的目标标签。现有防御通常依赖于通用后门设置的假设，其中有毒样品共享相同的均匀扳机。但是，最近的高级后门攻击表明，这种假设在动态后门中不再有效，在动态后门中，触发者因输入而异，从而击败了现有的防御。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种新颖的技术BEATRIX（通过革兰氏矩阵检测）。 BEATRIX利用革兰氏矩阵不仅捕获特征相关性，还可以捕获表示形式的适当高阶信息。通过从正常样本的激活模式中学习类条件统计，BEATRIX可以通过捕获激活模式中的异常来识别中毒样品。为了进一步提高识别目标标签的性能，BEATRIX利用基于内核的测试，而无需对表示分布进行任何先前的假设。我们通过与最先进的防御技术进行了广泛的评估和比较来证明我们的方法的有效性。实验结果表明，我们的方法在检测动态后门时达到了91.1％的F1得分，而最新技术只能达到36.9％。

We conduct a systematic study of backdoor vulnerabilities in normally trained Deep Learning models. They are as dangerous as backdoors injected by data poisoning because both can be equally exploited. We leverage 20 different types of injected backdoor attacks in the literature as the guidance and study their correspondences in normally trained models, which we call natural backdoor vulnerabilities. We find that natural backdoors are widely existing, with most injected backdoor attacks having natural correspondences. We categorize these natural backdoors and propose a general detection framework. It finds 315 natural backdoors in the 56 normally trained models downloaded from the Internet, covering all the different categories, while existing scanners designed for injected backdoors can at most detect 65 backdoors. We also study the root causes and defense of natural backdoors.

后门学习是研究深神经网络（DNNS）脆弱性的一个新兴而重要的话题。在快速武器竞赛的地位上，正在连续或同时提出许多开创性的后门攻击和防御方法。但是，我们发现对新方法的评估通常是不可思议的，以验证其主张和实际绩效，这主要是由于快速发展，不同的环境以及实施和可重复性的困难。没有彻底的评估和比较，很难跟踪当前的进度并设计文献的未来发展路线图。为了减轻这一困境，我们建立了一个名为Backdoorbench的后门学习的全面基准。它由一个可扩展的基于模块化的代码库（当前包括8个最先进（SOTA）攻击和9种SOTA防御算法的实现），以及完整的后门学习的标准化协议。我们还基于5个模型和4个数据集，对9个防御措施的每对8次攻击进行全面评估，总共8,000对评估。我们从不同的角度进一步介绍了对这8,000次评估的不同角度，研究了对国防算法，中毒比率，模型和数据集对后门学习的影响。 \ url {https://backdoorbench.github.io}公开获得了Backdoorbench的所有代码和评估。

与令人印象深刻的进步触动了我们社会的各个方面，基于深度神经网络（DNN）的AI技术正在带来越来越多的安全问题。虽然在考试时间运行的攻击垄断了研究人员的初始关注，但是通过干扰培训过程来利用破坏DNN模型的可能性，代表了破坏训练过程的可能性，这是破坏AI技术的可靠性的进一步严重威胁。在后门攻击中，攻击者损坏了培训数据，以便在测试时间诱导错误的行为。然而，测试时间误差仅在存在与正确制作的输入样本对应的触发事件的情况下被激活。通过这种方式，损坏的网络继续正常输入的预期工作，并且只有当攻击者决定激活网络内隐藏的后门时，才会发生恶意行为。在过去几年中，后门攻击一直是强烈的研究活动的主题，重点是新的攻击阶段的发展，以及可能对策的提议。此概述文件的目标是审查发表的作品，直到现在，分类到目前为止提出的不同类型的攻击和防御。指导分析的分类基于攻击者对培训过程的控制量，以及防御者验证用于培训的数据的完整性，并监控DNN在培训和测试中的操作时间。因此，拟议的分析特别适合于参考他们在运营的应用方案的攻击和防御的强度和弱点。

最近的研究表明，深层神经网络容易受到不同类型的攻击，例如对抗性攻击，数据中毒攻击和后门攻击。其中，后门攻击是最狡猾的攻击，几乎可以在深度学习管道的每个阶段发生。因此，后门攻击吸引了学术界和行业的许多兴趣。但是，大多数现有的后门攻击方法对于某些轻松的预处理（例如常见数据转换）都是可见的或脆弱的。为了解决这些限制，我们提出了一种强大而无形的后门攻击，称为“毒药”。具体而言，我们首先利用图像结构作为目标中毒区域，并用毒药（信息）填充它们以生成触发图案。由于图像结构可以在数据转换期间保持其语义含义，因此这种触发模式对数据转换本质上是强大的。然后，我们利用深度注射网络将这种触发模式嵌入封面图像中，以达到隐身性。与现有流行的后门攻击方法相比，毒药的墨水在隐形和健壮性方面都优于表现。通过广泛的实验，我们证明了毒药不仅是不同数据集和网络体系结构的一般性，而且对于不同的攻击场景也很灵活。此外，它对许多最先进的防御技术也具有非常强烈的抵抗力。

机器学习容易受到对抗操作的影响。先前的文献表明，在训练阶段，攻击者可以操纵数据和数据采样程序以控制模型行为。一个共同的攻击目标是种植后门，即迫使受害者模型学会识别只有对手知道的触发因素。在本文中，我们引入了一类新的后门攻击类，这些攻击隐藏在模型体系结构内，即在用于训练的功能的电感偏置中。这些后门很容易实现，例如，通过为其他人将在不知不觉中重复使用的后式模型体系结构发布开源代码。我们证明，模型架构后门代表了一个真正的威胁，与其他方法不同，可以从头开始进行完整的重新训练。我们将建筑后门背后的主要构建原理（例如输入和输出之间的链接）形式化，并描述对它们的一些可能的保护。我们评估了对不同尺度的计算机视觉基准测试的攻击，并证明在各种培训环境中，潜在的脆弱性无处不在。

Transforming off-the-shelf deep neural network (DNN) models into dynamic multi-exit architectures can achieve inference and transmission efficiency by fragmenting and distributing a large DNN model in edge computing scenarios (e.g., edge devices and cloud servers). In this paper, we propose a novel backdoor attack specifically on the dynamic multi-exit DNN models. Particularly, we inject a backdoor by poisoning one DNN model's shallow hidden layers targeting not this vanilla DNN model but only its dynamically deployed multi-exit architectures. Our backdoored vanilla model behaves normally on performance and cannot be activated even with the correct trigger. However, the backdoor will be activated when the victims acquire this model and transform it into a dynamic multi-exit architecture at their deployment. We conduct extensive experiments to prove the effectiveness of our attack on three structures (ResNet-56, VGG-16, and MobileNet) with four datasets (CIFAR-10, SVHN, GTSRB, and Tiny-ImageNet) and our backdoor is stealthy to evade multiple state-of-the-art backdoor detection or removal methods.

预训练模型（PTM）已被广泛用于各种下游任务。 PTM的参数分布在Internet上，可能会遭受后门攻击。在这项工作中，我们演示了PTMS的普遍脆弱性，在该工作中，可以通过任意下游任务中的后门攻击轻松控制PTMS。具体而言，攻击者可以添加一个简单的预训练任务，该任务将触发实例的输出表示限制为预定义的向量，即神经元级后门攻击（NEUBA）。如果在微调过程中未消除后门功能，则触发器可以通过预定义的矢量预测固定标签。在自然语言处理（NLP）和计算机视觉（CV）的实验中，我们表明Neuba绝对可以控制触发实例的预测，而无需了解下游任务。最后，我们将几种防御方法应用于Neuba，并发现模型修剪是通过排除后门神经元来抵抗Neuba的有希望的方向。我们的发现听起来是红色警报，用于广泛使用PTM。我们的源代码和模型可在\ url {https://github.com/thunlp/neuba}上获得。