# Application-Specific Power Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures: A Survey

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23785 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.23785/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 29 Dec 2025.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Power Side-Channel Membership Inference Attack on Embedded Machine Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.10909/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Side-channel attacks try to extract secret information from a system by analyzing different side-channel signatures, such as power consumption, electromagnetic emanation, thermal dissipation, acoustics, time, etc. Power-based side-channel attack is one of the most prominent side-channel attacks in cybersecurity, which rely on data-dependent power variations in a system to extract sensitive information. While there are related surveys, they primarily focus on power side-channel attacks on cryptographic implementations. In recent years, power-side channel attacks have been explored in diverse application domains, including key extraction from cryptographic implementations, reverse engineering of machine learning models, user behavior data exploitation, and instruction-level disassembly. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of power side-channel attacks and their countermeasures in different application domains. Specifically, this survey aims to classify recent power side-channel attacks and provide a comprehensive comparison based on application-specific considerations.