NDSS 2025 – Magmaw: Modality-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks
None
<p>SESSION<br> Session 3B: Wireless, Cellular & Satellite Security</p><p></p><center data-preserve-html-node="true"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LbhjPatTSaI?si=sCrKsNQO3ImbGvz_" width="560" frameborder="0" data-preserve-html-node="true" title="YouTube video player" height="315"></iframe><div class="code-block code-block-13" style="margin: 8px 0; clear: both;"> <style> .ai-rotate {position: relative;} .ai-rotate-hidden {visibility: hidden;} .ai-rotate-hidden-2 {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;} .ai-list-data, .ai-ip-data, .ai-filter-check, .ai-fallback, .ai-list-block, .ai-list-block-ip, .ai-list-block-filter {visibility: hidden; position: absolute; width: 50%; height: 1px; top: -1000px; z-index: -9999; margin: 0px!important;} .ai-list-data, .ai-ip-data, .ai-filter-check, .ai-fallback {min-width: 1px;} </style> <div class="ai-rotate ai-unprocessed ai-timed-rotation ai-13-1" data-info="WyIxMy0xIiwxXQ==" style="position: relative;"> <div class="ai-rotate-option" style="visibility: hidden;" data-index="1" data-name="U2hvcnQ=" data-time="MTA="> <div class="custom-ad"> <div style="margin: auto; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.techstrongevents.com/cruisecon-virtual-west-2025/home?ref=in-article-ad-2&utm_source=sb&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=in-article-ad-2" target="_blank"><img src="https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Banner-770x330-social-1.png" alt="Cruise Con 2025"></a></div> <div class="clear-custom-ad"></div> </div></div> </div> </div> <p></p><center data-preserve-html-node="true">Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jung-Woo Chang (University of California, San Diego), Ke Sun (University of California, San Diego), Nasimeh Heydaribeni (University of California, San Diego), Seira Hidano (KDDI Research, Inc.), Xinyu Zhang (University of California, San Diego), Farinaz Koushanfar (University of California, San Diego)<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">—————–<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">PAPER<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">—————–<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">Magmaw: Modality-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks on Machine Learning-Based Wireless Communication Systems <p></p><center data-preserve-html-node="true">Machine Learning (ML) has been instrumental in enabling joint transceiver optimization by merging all physical layer blocks of the end-to-end wireless communication systems. Although there have been a number of adversarial attacks on ML-based wireless systems, the existing methods do not provide a comprehensive view including multi-modality of the source data, common physical layer protocols, and wireless domain constraints. This paper proposes Magmaw, a novel wireless attack methodology capable of generating universal adversarial perturbations for any multimodal signal transmitted over a wireless channel. We further introduce new objectives for adversarial attacks on downstream applications. We adopt the widely used defenses to verify the resilience of Magmaw. For proof-of-concept evaluation, we build a real-time wireless attack platform using a software-defined radio system. Experimental results demonstrate that Magmaw causes significant performance degradation even in the presence of strong defense mechanisms. Furthermore, we validate the performance of Magmaw in two case studies: encrypted communication channel and channel modality-based ML model. Our code is available at [https://github.com/juc023/Magmaw].<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">———-<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">ABOUT NDSS<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">———–<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">————<br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true"><br> <center data-preserve-html-node="true">Our thanks to the **[Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium][1]** for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb **[NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference][2]** content on the **[organization’s’][1]** **[YouTube][3]** channel. <p></p></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center></center><p><a href="https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2025/11/16/ndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks">Permalink</a></p><p> </p><div class="spu-placeholder" style="display:none"></div><div class="addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content addtoany_content_bottom"><div class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_20 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://securityboulevard.com/2025/11/ndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks/" data-a2a-title="NDSS 2025 – Magmaw: Modality-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks"><a class="a2a_button_twitter" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/twitter?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks%2F&linkname=NDSS%202025%20%E2%80%93%20Magmaw%3A%20Modality-Agnostic%20Adversarial%20Attacks" title="Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks%2F&linkname=NDSS%202025%20%E2%80%93%20Magmaw%3A%20Modality-Agnostic%20Adversarial%20Attacks" title="LinkedIn" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_facebook" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks%2F&linkname=NDSS%202025%20%E2%80%93%20Magmaw%3A%20Modality-Agnostic%20Adversarial%20Attacks" title="Facebook" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_reddit" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/reddit?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks%2F&linkname=NDSS%202025%20%E2%80%93%20Magmaw%3A%20Modality-Agnostic%20Adversarial%20Attacks" title="Reddit" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_button_email" href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsecurityboulevard.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fndss-2025-magmaw-modality-agnostic-adversarial-attacks%2F&linkname=NDSS%202025%20%E2%80%93%20Magmaw%3A%20Modality-Agnostic%20Adversarial%20Attacks" title="Email" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share_save addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share"></a></div></div><p class="syndicated-attribution">*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from <a href="https://www.infosecurity.us/">Infosecurity.US</a> authored by <a href="https://securityboulevard.com/author/0/" title="Read other posts by Marc Handelman">Marc Handelman</a>. Read the original post at: <a href="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LbhjPatTSaI?si=sCrKsNQO3ImbGvz_">https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LbhjPatTSaI?si=sCrKsNQO3ImbGvz_</a> </p>