Review of the false data injection attack against the cyber‐physical power system

With the development of synchronous measuring technology and communication technology, the units of measurement, calculation, execution and communication are deeply integrated into energy manage system, which can achieve panoramic state awareness through the fast and accurate state estimation algorithm. Meanwhile, the cyber‐attack has become an important issue posing severe threats to the secure operation of power systems. A well‐designed false data injection attack (FDIA) against state estimation can effectively bypass the traditional bad data detection methods and interfere with the decision of the control centre, thus causing the power system incidents. This study comprehensively discusses the characteristics of FDIA including not only the goals, construction methods and consequences of FDIA from the perspective of attackers but also the protection and detection countermeasures from the perspective of defenders. Moreover, a game‐theory‐based FDIA against the substation information network is simulated to reveal the interactions between attackers and defenders.