The paper introduces ExCYDER, an explainable AI framework for anomaly detection in Distributed Energy Resource (DER) networks. It combines LightGBM with SHAP to self-verify alerts, ensuring that each detection aligns with feature‑attribution evidence. Experiments on a realistic DNP3 dataset show over 98% detection accuracy, 44.6% rule‑SHAP consistency, 14.5 ms SHAP latency per alert, and minimal confidence deviation, while distinguishing coherent from inconsistent alerts without sacrificing accuracy.
arXiv:2606. 05710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing penetrations of the critical infrastructure sector in the United States with intelligent digital technologies have greatly increased exposure to advanced cyber adversaries and operational vulnerabilities.
arXiv:2607. 26201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Security operations centers rely on anomaly detection systems to flag suspicious events.
arXiv:2603. 10676v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Industrial Control Systems (ICS) underpin critical infrastructure and face growing cyber-physical threats due to the convergence of operational technology and networked environments.
arXiv:2606. 05701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing adoption of distributed infrastructure systems, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, and edge-based architectures has significantly expanded the cybersecurity attack surface and introduced increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.
arXiv:2607. 01679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial attacks on cybersecurity classifiers pose a dual threat: degrading predictions and destabilising the SHAP-based explanations that security analysts rely on to understand and triage alerts.
arXiv:2607. 06963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stability AI, respectively, are revolutionizing cybersecurity, enabling both automated defense and sophisticated attacks.
Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stability AI, respectively, are revolutionizing cybersecurity, enabling both automated defense and sophisticated attacks. These technologies power real-time threat detection, phishing defense, secure code generation, and vulnerability exploitation at unprecedented scales.
Adversarial attacks on cybersecurity classifiers pose a dual threat: degrading predictions and destabilising the SHAP-based explanations that security analysts rely on to understand and triage alerts. We extend our prior MLP conference study to Random Forest and XGBoost across four tabular security datasets (phishing URLs, UNSW-NB15, NF-ToN-IoT, HIKARI-2021), evaluating five attacks including three black-box methods applicable to non-differentiable tree models.
arXiv:2608.21803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As machine learning (ML) models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes environments, explainable AI (XAI) methods like SHAP and LIME have become es...
The paper argues that adversarial robustness of anomaly detectors in industrial control systems (ICS) is a specific form of system resilience. It maps resilience concepts—disturbance class, absorption capacity, recovery trajectory, and degradation function—to adversarial machine learning, deriving a compositional resilience bound that identifies the coupling‑adjusted absorption capacity of nodes along an attack path as the key constraint. Empirical tests on the BATADAL water distribution benchmark reveal operationally significant effects, such as absorption‑degradation divergence under adversarial training and a paradox where hardening the most vulnerable node alone can reduce overall resilience.
arXiv:2606. 03430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) deployed in energy infrastructure are vulnerable to model theft attacks, which allow adversaries to create evasive traffic offline.
arXiv:2609.13731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from passive foundation models to autonomous, goal-directed agentic AI systems has introduced unprecedented capabilities by coupling rec...