FTA: Stealthy and Adaptive Backdoor Attack with Flexible Triggers on Federated Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00127v2
• Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:06:41 GMT
• Title: FTA: Stealthy and Adaptive Backdoor Attack with Flexible Triggers on Federated Learning
• Authors: Yanqi Qiao, Dazhuang Liu, Congwen Chen, Rui Wang, Kaitai Liang
• Abstract summary: We propose a new stealthy and robust backdoor attack against federated learning (FL) defenses. We build a generative trigger function that can learn to manipulate benign samples with an imperceptible flexible trigger pattern. Our trigger generator can keep learning and adapt across different rounds, allowing it to adjust to changes in the global model.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Current backdoor attacks against federated learning (FL) strongly rely on universal triggers or semantic patterns, which can be easily detected and filtered by certain defense mechanisms such as norm clipping, comparing parameter divergences among local updates. In this work, we propose a new stealthy and robust backdoor attack with flexible triggers against FL defenses. To achieve this, we build a generative trigger function that can learn to manipulate the benign samples with an imperceptible flexible trigger pattern and simultaneously make the trigger pattern include the most significant hidden features of the attacker-chosen label. Moreover, our trigger generator can keep learning and adapt across different rounds, allowing it to adjust to changes in the global model. By filling the distinguishable difference (the mapping between the trigger pattern and target label), we make our attack naturally stealthy. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets verify the effectiveness and stealthiness of our attack compared to prior attacks on decentralized learning framework with eight well-studied defenses.

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