Hardware Trojan Threat Taxonomies 2017-2020

Project Report from the year 2020 in the subject Computer Science - IT-Security, grade: 4.0, Fordham University, language: English, abstract: In cybersecurity, there is always a new or unknown threat lurking around the corner. In our report, we are taking a closer look at Hardware Trojan Attacks, also commonly referred to as "HT." A Hardware Trojan is a form of a backdoor attack. According to researchers, the minuscule HT is inserted into a processor, giving the threat attacker the ability to take full control and trigger privilege escalation of hardware and eventually gain complete access to the target''s operating system.This kind of attack is possible based on the way a Hardware Trojan is created. HT''s are mostly a maliciously modified version of an integrated circuits system. The Hardware Trojans payload is what the Trojan executes once it is activated. Hardware Trojans are designed to bypass security mechanisms in place to prevent malicious attacks, gaining critical data from its target, leaking it through radio emission.