{"id":223102,"date":"2025-10-08T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/hardware-vulnerability-allows-attackers-to-hack-ai-training-data"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:15:10","slug":"hardware-vulnerability-allows-attackers-to-hack-ai-training-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/hardware-vulnerability-allows-attackers-to-hack-ai-training-data","title":{"rendered":"Hardware vulnerability allows attackers to hack AI training data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hardware-vulnerability-allows-attackers-to-hack-ai-training-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201cGATEBLEED: A Timing-Only Membership Inference Attack, MoE-Routing Inference, and a Stealthy, Generic Magnifier Via Hardware Power Gating in AI Accelerators,\u201d will be presented at the IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (<a href=\"https:\/\/microarch.org\/micro58\/\" target=\"_blank\">MICRO 2025<\/a>), being held Oct. 18\u201322 in Seoul, South Korea. The paper is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2507.17033\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve discovered is an AI privacy attack,\u201d says Joshua Kalyanapu, first author of a paper on the work and a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University. \u201cSecurity attacks refer to stealing things actually stored somewhere in a system\u2019s memory\u2014such as stealing an AI model itself or stealing the hyperparameters of the model. That\u2019s not what we found. Privacy attacks steal stuff not actually stored on the system, such as the data used to train the model and attributes of the data input to the model. These facts are leaked through the behavior of the AI model. What we found is the first vulnerability that allows successfully attacking AI privacy via hardware.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from NC State University have identified the first hardware vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise the data privacy of artificial intelligence (AI) users by exploiting the physical hardware on which AI is run. The paper, \u201cGATEBLEED: A Timing-Only Membership Inference Attack, MoE-Routing Inference, and a Stealthy, Generic Magnifier Via Hardware Power Gating in AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}