Peilin Li

Chained Attacks on Drone-Based Federated Learning: From Network Disruption to Device Impersonation

This paper investigates a chained attack against drone-based FL systems that combines network-layer denial-of-service with credential-based impersonation, and demonstrates that an adversary can force legitimate drones offline using 802.11 deauthentication attacks and subsequently impersonate the disconnected drone usin...