Adversarial Attacks on Remote User Authentication Using Behavioural Mouse Dynamics

Yi Xiang Marcus Tan, Alfonso Iacovazzi, Ivan Homoliak, Yuval Elovici, Alexander Binder

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Abstract

Mouse dynamics is a potential means of authenticating users. Typically, the authentication process is based on classical machine learning techniques, but recently, deep learning techniques have been introduced for this purpose. Although prior research has demonstrated how machine learning and deep learning algorithms can be bypassed by carefully crafted adversarial samples, there has been very little research performed on the topic of behavioural biometrics in the adversarial domain. In an attempt to address this gap, we built a set of attacks, which are applications of several generative approaches, to construct adversarial mouse trajectories that bypass authentication models. These generated mouse sequences will serve as the adversarial samples in the context of our experiments. We also present an analysis of the attack approaches we explored, explaining their limitations. In contrast to previous work, we consider the attacks in a more realistic and challenging setting in which an attacker has access to recorded user data but does not have access to the authentication model or its outputs. We explore three different attack strategies: 1) statistics-based, 2) imitation-based, and 3) surrogate-based; we show that they are able to evade the functionality of the authentication models, thereby impacting their robustness adversely. We show that imitation-based attacks often perform better than surrogate-based attacks, unless, however, the attacker can guess the architecture of the authentication model. In such cases, we propose a potential detection mechanism against surrogate-based attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ISBN (Electronic)9781728119854
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2019
Event2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2019 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 14 Jul 201919 Jul 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Volume2019-July

Conference

Conference2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2019
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period14/07/1919/07/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence

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