Reflecthernet: Exfiltrating 100BASE-TX Ethernet Traffic Using a Retroreflector Hardware Trojan

Electromagnetic eavesdropping is a well-established attack vector for remotely monitoring a target activity, most notably displays, over considerable ranges. Other targets have been considered resistant to such attacks or do not exhibit sufficient electromagnetic leakage for practical exploitatio...

HarmChip: Evaluating Hardware Security Centric LLM Safety Via Jailbreak Benchmarking

The integration of large language models LLMs into electronic design automation EDA workflows has introduced powerful capabilities for RTL generation, verification, and design optimization, but also raises critical security concerns. Malicious LLM outputs in this domain pose hardware-level threat...

Trojan-Resilient NTT: Protecting against Control Flow and Timing Faults on Reconfigurable Platforms

Number Theoretic Transform NTT is the most essential component for polynomial multiplications used in lattice-based Post-Quantum Cryptography PQC algorithms such as Kyber, Dilithium, NTRU etc. However, side-channel attacks SCA and hardware vulnerabilities in the form of hardware Trojans may alter...

TrojanGYM: A Detector-In-The-Loop LLM for Adaptive RTL Hardware Trojan Insertion

Hardware Trojans HTs remain a critical threat because learning-based detectors often overfit to narrow trigger/payload patterns and small, stylized benchmarks. We introduce TrojanGYM, an agentic, LLM-driven framework that automatically curates HT insertions to expose detector blind spots while...

Automated Hardware Trojan Insertion in Industrial-Scale Designs

Industrial Systems-on-Chips SoCs often comprise hundreds of thousands to millions of nets and millions to tens of millions of connectivity edges, making empirical evaluation of hardware-Trojan HT detectors on realistic designs both necessary and difficult. Public benchmarks remain significantly...

SAND: A Self-Supervised and Adaptive NAS-Driven Framework for Hardware Trojan Detection

The globalized semiconductor supply chain has made Hardware Trojans HT a significant security threat to embedded systems, necessitating the design of efficient and adaptable detection mechanisms. Despite promising machine learning-based HT detection techniques in the literature, they suffer from ...

HAMLOCK: HArdware-Model LOgically Combined AttacK

The growing use of third-party hardware accelerators e.g., FPGAs, ASICs for deep neural networks DNNs introduces new security vulnerabilities. Conventional model-level backdoor attacks, which only poison a model's weights to misclassify inputs with a specific trigger, are often detectable because...

Environmental Rate Manipulation Attacks on Power Grid Security

The growing complexity of global supply chains has made hardware Trojans a significant threat in sensor-based power electronics. Traditional Trojan designs depend on digital triggers or fixed threshold conditions that can be detected during standard testing. In contrast, we introduce Environmenta...

Unpatchable 'Starbleed' Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers

A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change the functionality, and even implant hardware Trojans. The details of the attacks against Xilinx 7-Series and...

IEEE P1735 Cryptographic Issue Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-33396)

IEEE P1735 is a standard dedicated to encrypting the intellectual property of electronic designs. The implementation of IEEE P1735 is vulnerable to a cryptographic issue. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to change the encryption key and inject a hardware Trojan horse into arbitrary...

Hardware Keylogger used by Card skimmers to steal Credit Cards at Nordstrom Store

Three men allegedly installed Credit Card Skimming keylogger at into cash registers in a Nordstrom department store in the Florida. Those Keyloggers were connected via a keyboard cord between the keyboard and the computer to intercept the information transmitted between the two devices and...

Hardware Keylogger used by Card skimmers to steal Credit Cards at Nordstrom Store

Three men allegedly installed Credit Card Skimming keylogger at into cash registers in a Nordstrom department store in the Florida. Those Keyloggers were connected via a keyboard cord between the keyboard and the computer to intercept the information transmitted between the two devices and...

Integrated circuits can be compromised using Undetectable hardware Trojans

A team of researchers from the U.S. and Europe has developed a Hardware Trojan, which is an undetectable to many techniques, raising the question on need of proper hardware qualification. They released a paper on stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans, showing how integrated circuits used in...