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AttackonCTF: Defending Hardware Security Competition Benchmarks in the Age of LLMs
Mohamadreza Rostami, Nikhilesh Singh, Stephen Muttathil +5
Hardware security competitions such as HackTheSilicon serve as benchmarking platforms for evaluating vulnerability detection methods and for training humans and AI. However, our st…
AegisSat: Securing AI-Enabled SoC FPGA Satellite Platforms
Huimin Li, Vusal Novruzov, Nikhilesh Singh +3
The increasing adoption of System-on-Chip Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (SoC FPGAs) in AI-enabled satellite systems, valued for their reconfigurability and in-orbit update capabil…
GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing
Lichao Wu, Mohamadreza Rostami, Huimin Li +2
Modern hardware systems, driven by demands for high performance and application-specific functionality, have grown increasingly complex, introducing large surfaces for bugs and sec…
Valkyrie: A Response Framework to Augment Runtime Detection of Time-Progressive Attacks
Nikhilesh Singh, Chester Rebeiro
A popular approach to detect cyberattacks is to monitor systems in real-time to identify malicious activities as they occur. While these solutions aim to detect threats early, mini…
WhisperFuzz: White-Box Fuzzing for Detecting and Locating Timing Vulnerabilities in Processors
Pallavi Borkar, Chen Chen, Mohamadreza Rostami +5
Timing vulnerabilities in processors have emerged as a potent threat. As processors are the foundation of any computing system, identifying these flaws is imperative. Recently fuzz…
A Survey of Security Concerns and Countermeasures in Modern Micro-architectures with Transient Execution
Nikhilesh Singh, Vinod Ganesan, Chester Rebeiro
In the last two decades, the evolving cyber-threat landscape has brought to center stage the contentious tradeoffs between the security and performance of modern microprocessors. T…
SUNDEW: An Ensemble of Predictors for Case-Sensitive Detection of Malware
Sareena Karapoola, Nikhilesh Singh, Chester Rebeiro +1
Malware programs are diverse, with varying objectives, functionalities, and threat levels ranging from mere pop-ups to financial losses. Consequently, their run-time footprints acr…
LEASH: Enhancing Micro-architectural Attack Detection with a Reactive Process Scheduler
Nikhilesh Singh, Chester Rebeiro
Micro-architectural attacks use information leaked through shared resources to break hardware-enforced isolation. These attacks have been used to steal private information ranging…