GANMIA: GAN-based Black-box Membership Inference Attack

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) against machine learning systems have drawn tremendous attention from information security researchers. By MIA, an adversary can speculate whether an individual data record is a member of the training set or not. Existing black-box MIA assumes that much information about the training data is available. Specifically, the attacker assumes that (s)he has the ability to query the target model without limitations or can access a sufficient dataset whose distribution is the same as the training data set. However, in a realistic scenario, MIAs usually come up with the limited number and the imbalanced proportion of target training datasets which cause significant challenges for MIAs. To launch an MIA in the realistic scenario, in this paper, we present a novel method called GANMIA, which generates synthetic data to augment the training samples of the shadow model for the black-box MIA by a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). GANMIA firstly augments synthesized samples and then uses the generated samples to train the given shadow model to increase the training efficiency, and additionally improve the MIA’s performance. The experimental results show that the accuracy of the black-box MIA increases by 23% with the help of our synthetic data.