{"slug": "a-hardware-security-ai-assistant-that-checks-chips-for-hidden-backdoors", "title": "A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors", "summary": "Researchers at the University of Florida have developed an AI assistant that detects hidden backdoors in chip designs, addressing the risk of malicious circuits inserted by third-party vendors. The tool analyzes hardware blocks from external suppliers to identify dormant triggers that could be activated by specific inputs.", "body_md": "Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each written by a company the buyer may never deal with directly. A malicious supplier can bury a hidden circuit in a working design, and that circuit can stay quiet until a specific input wakes it up. Researchers at the University of Florida built a tool aimed at this … [More ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/13/hardware-security-ai-assistant-hidden-backdoors/)\n\nThe post [A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/13/hardware-security-ai-assistant-hidden-backdoors/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hardware-security-ai-assistant-that-checks-chips-for-hidden-backdoors", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/13/hardware-security-ai-assistant-hidden-backdoors/", "published_at": "2026-07-13 05:00:20+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 05:10:05.065087+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-tools", "ai-research"], "entities": ["University of Florida"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hardware-security-ai-assistant-that-checks-chips-for-hidden-backdoors", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hardware-security-ai-assistant-that-checks-chips-for-hidden-backdoors.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hardware-security-ai-assistant-that-checks-chips-for-hidden-backdoors.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-hardware-security-ai-assistant-that-checks-chips-for-hidden-backdoors.jsonld"}}