SummaryThe smart grid faces a variety of physical and cyber attacks. Coordinated cyber‐physical attacks can cause severer consequences than the single cyber or physical attacks, which can be divided into two categories according to whether the physical attack is stealthy or not. Coordinated cyber‐physical attacks considering DoS attacks are investigated due to the lower cost of DoS attacks. In each category of coordinated cyber‐physical attacks, the mathematical models are derived and suitable methods are adopted to solve the corresponding issue. The experimental simulation demonstrates the potentially damaging effects and threats of this newly proposed attack. It is also presented that this newly proposed attack can use lower attack resources to introduce more catastrophic effects on the power system.
Location verification is a promising approach among various ADS-B security mechanisms, which can monitor announced positions in ADS-B messages with estimated positions. Based on common assumption that the attacker is equipped with only a single device, this mechanism can estimate the position state through analysis of time measurements of messages using multilateration algorithm. In this paper, we propose the formal model of multidevice false data injection attacks in the ATC system against the location verification. Assuming that attackers equipped with multiple devices can manipulate the ADS-B messages in distributed receivers without any mutual interference, such attacker can efficiently construct attack vectors to change the results of multilateration. The feasibility of a multidevice false data injection attack is demonstrated experimentally. Compared with previous multidevice attacks, the multidevice false data injection attacks can offer lower cost and more covert attacks. The simulation results show that the proposed attack can reduce the attackers’ cost by half and achieve better time synchronization to bypass the existing anomaly detection. Finally, we discuss the real-world constraints that limit their effectiveness and the countermeasures of these attacks.
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