tag: hardware Trojans

Security Threats To Multitenant FPGAs: A Remote Undervolting Attack That Activates A Trojan Concealed Within A Victim Design 
By Technical Paper Link - 15 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “X-Attack 2.0: The Risk of Power Wasters and Satisfiability Don’t-Care Hardware Trojans to Shared Cloud FPGAs” was published by researchers at EPFL, Cyber-Defence Campus (Switzerland), and Northwestern Polytechnical University (China). Abstract: "Cloud computing environments increasingly provision field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their programmability ... » read more

New Type Of Hardware Trojans Based On Logic Locking
By Technical Paper Link - 03 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Logic Locking based Trojans: A Friend Turns Foe” was published by researchers at University of Maryland and University of Florida. Abstract: "Logic locking and hardware Trojans are two fields in hardware security that have been mostly developed independently from each other. In this paper, we identify the relationship between these two fields. We find that a com... » read more

Detecting Hardware Trojans Using Analytical Modeling
By Technical Paper Link - 27 Sep, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Secure Run-Time Hardware Trojan Detection Using Lightweight Analytical Models” was published by researchers at National University of Singapore and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Abstract: "Hardware Trojans, malicious components that attempt to prevent a chip from operating as expected, are carefully crafted to circumvent detection during the pre-deploymen... » read more

Protecting Power Management Circuits Against Trojan Attacks
By Technical Paper Link - 24 Jun, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Hardware Trojans in Power Conversion Circuits” was published by researchers at UC Davis. Abstract: "This report investigates the potential impact of a Trojan attack on power conversion circuits, specifically a switching signal attack designed to trigger a locking of the pulse width modulation (PWM) signal that goes to a power field-effect transistor (FET). The fi... » read more

ML-Based Third-Party IP Trust Verification Framework (U. of Florida, U. of Kansas)
By Technical Paper Link - 01 May, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Hardware IP Assurance against Trojan Attacks with Machine Learning and Post-processing" was published by researchers at University of Florida and University of Kansas. Abstract: "System-on-chip (SoC) developers increasingly rely on pre-verified hardware intellectual property (IP) blocks often acquired from untrusted third-party vendors. These IPs might contain hidd... » read more

Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Based on 4 Different ICs Manufactured in Progressively Smaller CMOS Process Technologies
By Technical Paper Link - 11 Jan, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Red Team vs. Blue Team: A Real-World Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Across Four Modern CMOS Technology Generations" was published by researchers at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Ruhr University Bochum, and Bundeskriminalamt. "In this work, we aim to improve upon this state of the art by presenting a... » read more

Hardware Security: New Mathematical Model To Quantify Information Flow in Digital Circuits For Different Attack Models (RWTH Aachen)
By Technical Paper Link - 06 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "Quantitative Information Flow for Hardware: Advancing the Attack Landscape" was published by researchers at RWTH Aachen University. Abstract: "Security still remains an afterthought in modern Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which solely focus on enhancing performance and reducing the chip size. Typically, the security analysis is conducted by hand, l... » read more

Hardware Trojans Target Coherence Systems in Chiplets (Texas A&M / NYU)
By Technical Paper Link - 01 Dec, 2022 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled "Hardware Trojan Threats to Cache Coherence in Modern 2.5D Chiplet Systems" was published by researchers at Texas A&M University and NYU. Abstract: "As industry moves toward chiplet-based designs, the insertion of hardware Trojans poses a significant threat to the security of these systems. These systems rely heavily on cache coherence for coherent data communic... » read more

Hardware Trojan Inserted Inside A RISC-V Based Automotive Telematics Control Unit
By Technical Paper Link - 21 Oct, 2022 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "On the Feasibility of Remotely Triggered Automotive Hardware Trojans" was written by researchers at Georgia Tech. "In this paper, we discuss how Hardware Trojans can act as the physical access intermediates to allow the remote triggering of malicious payloads embedded in ECUs, through seemingly benign wireless communication. We demonstrate a proof of concept ECU... » read more

Real-time instruction-level verification of remote IoT/CPS devices via side channels
By Technical Paper Link - 19 Apr, 2022 - Comments: 0

Abstract "In recent years, with the rise of IoT technology, wireless Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have become widely deployed in critical infrastructure, including power generation, military systems, and autonomous and unmanned vehicles. The introduction of network connectivity for data transfer, cloud support, etc., into CPS, can lead to malware injection. Meanwhile, outsourcing of advanced t... » read more

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