A Controllable False Data Injection Attack for a Cyber Physical System

Abstract

With the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), various types of devices and massive systems comprising national infrastructures such as a smart grid are connected on a network, which poses various types of security issues in a cyber physical system. In this paper, we propose two false data injection attacks, which are on the forward path and the feedback path of a control system. Both are designed with a controllable parameter which determines the degree of degradation. A defensive method of inversing a linear forward attack through estimating with least square or minimum mean squared method was developed. A conventional Kalman filter was considered as a defensive method for a noise injection attack on the feedback path. The numerical evaluation verifies that the parameters of the proposed attacks control the degree of performance degradation of the control system, and the proposed defenses can effectively defend the proposed attacks.