Data Poisoning Attacks in Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews data poisoning attack models in Intelligent Transportation Systems, identifying vulnerabilities, categorizing attack methods, and discussing limitations and future research to enhance trustworthiness.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive framework for understanding data poisoning attacks in ITS and highlights research gaps and future directions.

Findings

Identified main ITS data sources vulnerable to poisoning

Categorized attack models within a general framework

Discussed limitations and future research directions

Abstract

Emerging technologies drive the ongoing transformation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). This transformation has given rise to cybersecurity concerns, among which data poisoning attack emerges as a new threat as ITS increasingly relies on data. In data poisoning attacks, attackers inject malicious perturbations into datasets, potentially leading to inaccurate results in offline learning and real-time decision-making processes. This paper concentrates on data poisoning attack models against ITS. We identify the main ITS data sources vulnerable to poisoning attacks and application scenarios that enable staging such attacks. A general framework is developed following rigorous study process from cybersecurity but also considering specific ITS application needs. Data poisoning attacks against ITS are reviewed and categorized following the framework. We then discuss the current limitations of these attack models and the future research directions. Our work can serve as a guideline to better understand the threat of data poisoning attacks against ITS applications, while also giving a perspective on the future development of trustworthy ITS.