Silent Blindness: Fault Vulnerability of Hardware Malware Detectors

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Alireza Abolhasani Zeraatkar, Parnian Shabani Kamran, Parsa Mirfasihi, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Hussain Al-Asaad)

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.36612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hardware malware detectors (HMDs) classify hardware performance-counter measurements to identify malicious execution. Faults in their decision logic or parameters can weaken detection and allow malware to be classified as benign. We investigate this vulnerability through structural fault injection across a design space comprising 18 classifiers, four counter budgets, and AdaBoost and Bagging ensembles.

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