  Despite the great achievements of deep neural networks (DNNs), the
vulnerability of state-of-the-art DNNs raises security concerns of DNNs in many
application domains requiring high reliability.We propose the fault sneaking
attack on DNNs, where the adversary aims to misclassify certain input images
into any target labels by modifying the DNN parameters. We apply ADMM
(alternating direction method of multipliers) for solving the optimization
problem of the fault sneaking attack with two constraints: 1) the
classification of the other images should be unchanged and 2) the parameter
modifications should be minimized. Specifically, the first constraint requires
us not only to inject designated faults (misclassifications), but also to hide
the faults for stealthy or sneaking considerations by maintaining model
accuracy. The second constraint requires us to minimize the parameter
modifications (using L0 norm to measure the number of modifications and L2 norm
to measure the magnitude of modifications). Comprehensive experimental
evaluation demonstrates that the proposed framework can inject multiple
sneaking faults without losing the overall test accuracy performance.
