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A Taxonomy of Attacks on Federated Learning

Jere, Malhar S., Farnan, Tyler, Koushanfar, Farinaz·2021·IEEE Security & Privacy

Abstract

Federated learning is a privacy-by-design framework that enables training deep neural networks from decentralized sources of data, but it is fraught with innumerable attack surfaces. We provide a taxonomy of recent attacks on federated learning systems and detail the need for more robust threat modeling in federated learning environments.

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  • An adversary monitoring the communication channels can efficiently infer the private data of the participants.

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Authors
Jere, M. S., Farnan, T., & Koushanfar, F.
Affiliations
University of California San Diego (US)
Venue
IEEE Security & Privacy
Published
2021-03
Volume
19
Issue
2
Pages
20-28
ISSN
  • 1540-7993 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-4046
OpenAlex
W3114953370
Cited by
217
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 24 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 1
FWCI
8.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Security & Privacy (publishedVersion)
Funders
Semiconductor Research Corporation (AUTO 2899.001)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Security and Verification in Computing
Keywords
federated learning, attack taxonomy, threat modeling, privacy, deep neural network

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