TY - GEN
T1 - Demonstration of man in the middle attack on a feeder power factor correction unit
AU - Hadjidemetriou, Lenos
AU - Tertytchny, Georgios
AU - Karbouj, Hazem
AU - Charalambous, Charalambos
AU - Michael, Maria K.
AU - Sazos, Marios
AU - Maniatakos, Michail
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10/26
Y1 - 2020/10/26
N2 - Cyber security of distribution power systems is of an increasing and pressing importance due to the fast modernisation of current systems. Cyber attacks on distribution power systems may aim to operate the system inefficiently, steal private smart meter data or cause intentional false tripping of few or all feeders. In this paper, a Man in The Middle (MiTM) attack on a power factor correction unit is implemented and demonstrated to overload a distribution feeder and cause an intentional false tripping of the entire feeder causing regional blackout. Experimental implementation of the attack is carried out in a laboratory-scale setup using commercial power equipment under different loading conditions to demonstrate the effectiveness of this attack.
AB - Cyber security of distribution power systems is of an increasing and pressing importance due to the fast modernisation of current systems. Cyber attacks on distribution power systems may aim to operate the system inefficiently, steal private smart meter data or cause intentional false tripping of few or all feeders. In this paper, a Man in The Middle (MiTM) attack on a power factor correction unit is implemented and demonstrated to overload a distribution feeder and cause an intentional false tripping of the entire feeder causing regional blackout. Experimental implementation of the attack is carried out in a laboratory-scale setup using commercial power equipment under different loading conditions to demonstrate the effectiveness of this attack.
KW - Cyber-physical attack
KW - Inverters
KW - Man in the middle attack
KW - Power factor correction
KW - Smart grid
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U2 - 10.1109/ISGT-Europe47291.2020.9248779
DO - 10.1109/ISGT-Europe47291.2020.9248779
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097347541
T3 - IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe
SP - 126
EP - 130
BT - Proceedings of 2020 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, ISGT-Europe 2020
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 10th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, ISGT-Europe 2020
Y2 - 26 October 2020 through 28 October 2020
ER -