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The Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) 2.0.1 supports the communication between the Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) and Charging Station Management Systems (CSMSs); therefore, it becomes vulnerable to several types of attacks, which aim to jeopardize smart charging, billing, and energy management. Specifically, OCPP 2.0.1 allows the self-reporting of the State of Charge (SOC) values, which makes it vulnerable to spoofing-based cyberattacks, which target manipulating the scheduling priorities, distorting the load forecasts, and extending the charging sessions in an unfair manner. In this paper, we try to address this type of attack by providing a comprehensive analysis of the SOC spoofing attacks and introducing a novel unsupervised detection framework based on the One-Class Support Vector Machine (OCSVM) algorithm. Specifically, two types of attack scenarios are analyzed (i.e., priority manipulation and session extension) by deriving engineered features that capture the nonlinear relationships under normal charging behavior. Detailed simulation-based results are derived by utilizing the DESL-EPFL Level 3 EV charging dataset. Our results demonstrate high F1-score and recall in identifying spoofed SOC values and that the proposed OCSVM model demonstrates superior performance compared to alternative clustering and deep-learning based detectors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi18010060","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,21]],"date-time":"2026-01-21T13:59:54Z","timestamp":1769003994000},"page":"60","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Unsupervised Detection of SOC Spoofing in OCPP 2.0.1 EV Charging Communication Protocol Using One-Class SVM"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1802-484X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aisha B.","family":"Rahman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Performance and Resource Optimization in Networks (PROTON) Lab, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA"}]},{"given":"Md Sadman","family":"Siraj","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Performance and Resource Optimization in Networks (PROTON) Lab, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1322-1876","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eirini Eleni","family":"Tsiropoulou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Performance and Resource Optimization in Networks (PROTON) Lab, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA"}]},{"given":"Georgios","family":"Fragkos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}]},{"given":"Ryan","family":"Sullivant","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}]},{"given":"Yung Ryn","family":"Choe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5955-242X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jhaell","family":"Jimenez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}]},{"given":"Junghwan","family":"Rhee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK 73034, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0582-5795","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kyu Hyung","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Shankleman, J. 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