CITADEL: CWE-Guided Insertion of Hardware Trojans via Analysis of DFG-Enabled LLMs

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jayanth Thangellamudi, Raghul Saravanan, Sudipta Paria, Swarup Bhunia, Sai Manoj P D)

Summary by Cyber Security News5 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.02544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing sophistication of Hardware Trojans (HTs) and system-level vulnerabilities poses significant risks to modern integrated circuits. However, constructing realistic HT scenarios, remains a substantial burden: researchers must manually analyze complex RTL structures, identify plausible weaknesses, and craft stealthy, synthesizable insertions that preserve functional correctness.

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