Abstract:Coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPA) utilize network attacks to mask or prolong the impact of physical attacks, which can pose a great threat to smart grid. To prevent the coordinated false data injection(FDI) attacks and expose the impact of physical attacks, a moving target defense(MTD) method based on controlled measurement set randomization was proposed.Firstly, the constraints that need to be met in the selection of measurements were formally described. Secondly, a random set of measurements was adopted for state estimation, which can invalidate the attacker’s prior acquired knowledge regarding power grids. Finally, extensive simulations were performed on the standard IEEE systems using the MATPOWER simulator, and results have shown that the proposed approach can prevent more than 50% of the states from being attacked.