Manipulating recommender systems: A survey of poisoning attacks and countermeasures

TT Nguyen, N Quoc Viet Hung, TT Nguyen… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have become an integral part of online services due to their ability to
help users locate specific information in a sea of data. However, existing studies show that …

Latest trends of security and privacy in recommender systems: a comprehensive review and future perspectives

Y Himeur, SS Sohail, F Bensaali, A Amira… - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
With the widespread use of Internet of things (IoT), mobile phones, connected devices and
artificial intelligence (AI), recommender systems (RSs) have become a booming technology …

Recent developments in recommender systems: A survey

Y Li, K Liu, R Satapathy, S Wang… - IEEE Computational …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this technical survey, the latest advancements in the field of recommender systems are
comprehensively summarized. The objective of this study is to provide an overview of the …

Poisoning GNN-based recommender systems with generative surrogate-based attacks

T Nguyen Thanh, NDK Quach, TT Nguyen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With recent advancements in graph neural networks (GNN), GNN-based recommender
systems (gRS) have achieved remarkable success in the past few years. Despite this …

Black-box attacks on sequential recommenders via data-free model extraction

Z Yue, Z He, H Zeng, J McAuley - … of the 15th ACM conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We investigate whether model extraction can be used to 'steal'the weights of sequential
recommender systems, and the potential threats posed to victims of such attacks. This type …

A comprehensive survey on trustworthy recommender systems

W Fan, X Zhao, X Chen, J Su, J Gao, L Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
As one of the most successful AI-powered applications, recommender systems aim to help
people make appropriate decisions in an effective and efficient way, by providing …

Influence-driven data poisoning for robust recommender systems

C Wu, D Lian, Y Ge, Z Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown that recommender systems are vulnerable, and it is easy for
attackers to inject well-designed malicious profiles into the system, resulting in biased …

Knowledge-enhanced black-box attacks for recommendations

J Chen, W Fan, G Zhu, X Zhao, C Yuan, Q Li… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks-based recommender systems are
vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where attackers can inject carefully crafted fake user …

Triple adversarial learning for influence based poisoning attack in recommender systems

C Wu, D Lian, Y Ge, Z Zhu, E Chen - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As an important means to solve information overload, recommender systems have been
widely applied in many fields, such as e-commerce and advertising. However, recent studies …

FedAttack: Effective and covert poisoning attack on federated recommendation via hard sampling

C Wu, F Wu, T Qi, Y Huang, X **e - … of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Federated learning (FL) is a feasible technique to learn personalized recommendation
models from decentralized user data. Unfortunately, federated recommender systems are …