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The past decade has seen the rise of the number of attacking mechanisms that can penetrate the existing protections on the power networks (Chen and Abu-Nimeh, Computer 44(4): 91–93, 2011; McAfee White Paper, Global Energy Cyberattacks: Night Dragon. McAfee, 2011), as well as the first-ever attack on a national power grid (Ten et al., IEEE Trans Smart Grid 9(5): 4405–4425, 2018). To develop countering strategies for this mounting threat, it is important for us to explore various methods adversarial actors can use to compromise the network. In this chapter, we present a novel distributed attack algorithm that compromises Distribution Network (DN) operation through malicious, incremental actuation of distributed load elements in the network. Since incremental actuation increases the difficulty for the Electric Power Utility (EPU) to isolate the compromised components, this attack strategy is also stealthy. To mitigate this type of attack, we also introduce a distributed countermeasure strategy that suppresses the adverse effects of the proposed attack scheme via theoretical constructs from dual updates.
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Liu, J., Srikantha, P. (2020). Distributed Attack and Mitigation Strategies for Active Power Distribution Networks. In: Karimipour, H., Srikantha, P., Farag, H., Wei-Kocsis, J. (eds) Security of Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45541-5_13
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