攻击者仅用少量数据就能骗过联邦学习系统,让模型误分类且不被检测。
VTarbel: Targeted Label Attack with Minimal Knowledge on Detector-enhanced Vertical Federated Learning
- 用最小样本集收集标签,训练本地探测器与代理模型。
- 在七组数据上成功率超90%,且避开两种异常检测机制。
- 适合研究联邦学习安全的学者或防御设计者参考。
垂直联邦学习(VFL)允许多方基于非重叠特征协作训练模型而不共享原始数据。尽管其隐私漏洞已被广泛研究,但针对特定标签的攻击仍缺乏深入探讨。此类攻击中,被动方在推理阶段扰动输入,迫使模型将样本错误分类为攻击者指定的类别。现有方法依赖不切实际的假设(如可访问模型输出),且忽略真实系统中部署的异常检测机制。为此,我们提出VTarbel,一种两阶段、低知识要求的攻击框架,专为规避检测增强型VFL推理而设计。准备阶段,攻击者通过最大均值差异选取少量高表达力样本,经由VFL协议提交以获取预测标签,并利用这些伪标签在本地特征上训练估计的检测器与代理模型。攻击阶段,利用这些模型引导梯度扰动生成对抗样本,诱导目标误分类并逃逸检测。我们在四种模型架构、七个异构数据集及两种异常检测器上实现并评估了该框架。所有设置下,VTarbel均优于四个最先进基线,成功避过检测,并对三种代表性隐私保护防御保持有效。结果揭示当前VFL部署中的关键安全盲点,凸显构建鲁棒、抗攻击防御体系的紧迫性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vertical federated learning (VFL) enables multiple parties with disjoint features to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. While privacy vulnerabilities of VFL are extensively-studied, its security threats-particularly targeted label attacks-remain underexplored. In such attacks, a passive party perturbs inputs at inference to force misclassification into adversary-chosen labels. Existing methods rely on unrealistic assumptions (e.g., accessing VFL-model's outputs) and ignore anomaly detectors deployed in real-world systems. To bridge this gap, we introduce VTarbel, a two-stage, minimal-knowledge attack framework explicitly designed to evade detector-enhanced VFL inference. During the preparation stage, the attacker selects a minimal set of high-expressiveness samples (via maximum mean discrepancy), submits them through VFL protocol to collect predicted labels, and uses these pseudo-labels to train estimated detector and surrogate model on local features. In attack stage, these models guide gradient-based perturbations of remaining samples, crafting adversarial instances that induce targeted misclassifications and evade detection. We implement VTarbel and evaluate it against four model architectures, seven multimodal datasets, and two anomaly detectors. Across all settings, VTarbel outperforms four state-of-the-art baselines, evades detection, and retains effective against three representative privacy-preserving defenses. These results reveal critical security blind spots in current VFL deployments and underscore urgent need for robust, attack-aware defenses.
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