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arXiv AI
Oct 19

StratFL: Countering Covert Model Poisoning Attacks with Strategic Federated Learning

The paper introduces StratFL, a strategy for federated learning that counters covert model poisoning attacks by modeling the interaction between the server and attacker as an imperfect repeated game. It proposes new belief‑update algorithms for both parties and an adversarial search method to detect and mitigate intermittent poisoned updates. Experiments on MNIST and CIFAR‑10 show that StratFL improves accuracy by about 10% over existing defenses while demonstrating convergence of the belief updates across various security scenarios.

By Manoj Twarakavi, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla
Simon Willison
Oct 20

eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates have been compromised, affecting root chains trusted by major browsers and many downstream trust stores. Software that bundles trusted certificates must update their lists, and Linux distributions are advised to refresh ca‑certificates packages. Updated Python tools (uv 0.13.4, pip 26.2.2, certifi 2026.10.19) now include the revised certificate lists.