Researchers have a new method to detect malware hidden in hardware components

guest · Apr 26, 2019

Researchers have a new method to detect malware hidden in hardware components
It is hard to hide from power analysis techniques
April 26, 2019
https://www.techspot.com/news/79822-researchers-have-new-method-detect-malware-hidden-hardware.html

The big picture: Software is not always able to find malicious code hidden in firmware of hardware components. Detecting hardware-based hacks is incredibly difficult, but progress is being made to thwart the effectiveness of such attacks.

Hiding malware inside of firmware within hard drives, motherboards, graphics cards, and other common components can make it impossible for OS-level software to find any anomalies.
Even though malware developers have gotten even sneakier by implanting malicious code into embedded firmware, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin have developed a reliable method of identifying such intrusions.

"The nature of micro-architectural attacks makes them very difficult to detect -- but we have found a way to detect them"
Monitoring power use itself is not a new concept, but the idea of a plug-and-play solution capable of working with a variety of systems is intriguing. The only caveat here is that very carefully written malware can attempt to replicate normal power consumption.
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