Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) have been available in processors for more than a
decade. These counters can be used to monitor and measure events that occur at the CPU …

The ever-increasing prevalence of malware has led to the explorations of various detection
mechanisms. Several recent works propose to use Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) …

Malware can range from simple adware to stealthy kernel control-flow modifying rootkits.
Although anti-virus software is popular, an ongoing cat-and-mouse cycle of anti-virus …

Hardware-assisted Malware Detection (HMD) has emerged as a promising solution to
improve the security of computer systems using Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) …

When creating architectural tools, it is essential to know whether the generated results make
sense. Comparing a toolpsilas outputs against hardware performance counters on an actual …

The proliferation of computers in any domain is followed by the proliferation of malware in
that domain. Systems, including the latest mobile platforms, are laden with viruses, rootkits …

Hardware Malware Detectors (HMDs) have recently been proposed as a defense against
the proliferation of malware. These detectors use low-level features, that can be collected by …

Detection of malicious software at the hardware level is emerging as an effective solution to
increasing security threats. Hardware based detectors rely on Machine Learning (ML) …

Over the past decades, the major objectives of computer design have been to improve
performance and to reduce cost, energy consumption, and size, while security has remained …

Ideal hardware performance counters provide exact deterministic results. Real-world
performance monitoring unit (PMU) implementations do not always live up to this ideal …