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Seeing the unseen: Intrusion attack detection in connected autonomous vehicles

Lookup NU author(s): Talea HuraysiORCiD, Dr Rui SunORCiD, Dr Haoran DuanORCiD, Kwabena Adu-DuoduORCiD, Professor Raj Ranjan, Dr Bo WeiORCiD, Dr Tejal Shah

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Abstract

© 2025 The Author(s).Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are becoming increasingly common, and their popularity is expected to increase further, especially due to the ease and convenience they provide. An important component of CAVs is the Electronic Control Unit or the ECU; these ECUs are connected to each other through the Controller Area Network or CAN bus. The increasing use of CAVs has significantly expanded its threat landscape with several security vulnerabilities that can be severely damaging, especially when the ECUs or CAN are compromised. Existing security mechanisms are largely designed for known vulnerabilities, leaving the potential for unknown attacks high. In order to address this gap in detecting previously unknown attacks, we propose a novel autoencoder and payload fragmentation-based in-vehicle unknown intrusion method. For the precise prediction of attack and sub-attack, the data payload is fragmented into one-byte fragments, and the prediction dependency is analyzed for each fragment. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that our proposed method shows improved performance with an attack classification accuracy of 99.88% and sub-attack accuracy of 99.98%.


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Author(s): Huraysi T, Sun R, Duan H, Adu-Duodu K, Ranjan R, Wei B, Shah T

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: High-Confidence Computing

Year: 2026

Volume: 6

Issue: 3

Print publication date: 01/09/2026

Online publication date: 17/11/2025

Acceptance date: 08/11/2025

Date deposited: 21/08/2026

ISSN (electronic): 2667-2952

Publisher: Shandong University

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hcc.2025.100375

DOI: 10.1016/j.hcc.2025.100375

Data Access Statement: Hyunjae Kang, Byung Il Kwak, Young Hun Lee, Haneol Lee, Hwejae Lee, Huy Kang Kim, February 3, 2021, ‘‘Car Hacking: Attack & Defense Challenge 2020 Dataset’’, IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/qvr7-n418.


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EPSRC (EP/W003325/1)
EPSRC (EP/Y028813/1)

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