Srikantha, PirathayiniJ. LiuJ. Samarabandu2021-08-302021-08-302019-05P. Srikantha, J. Liu and J. Samarabandu, "A Novel Distributed and Stealthy Attack on Active Distribution Networks and a Mitigation Strategy," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 823-831, Feb. 2020.1551-3203http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TII.2019.2919202http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38532Rapid advances in smart devices tremendously facilitate our day-to-day lives. However, these can be exploited remotely via existing cyber vulnerabilities to cause disruption at the physical infrastructure level. In this paper, we discover a novel distributed and stealthy attack that uses malicious actuation of a large number of small-scale loads residing within a distribution network (DN). This attack is capable of cumulatively violating the underlying operational system limits, leading to widespread and prolonged disruptions. A key element of this attack is the efficient use of attack resources, planned via Stackelberg games. To mitigate this type of an attack, we propose a countermeasure strategy which adaptively suppresses adverse effects of the attack when detected in a timely manner. The effectiveness of the proposed mitigation strategy is demonstrated via theoretical convergence studies, practical evaluations, and comparisons with the state-of-the-art strategies using realistic load flow and DN infrastructure models.en© 2020 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.cyber-physical securityinternet of things (IoT)population gamesArticlehttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8723081https://www.ieee.org/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8723081