1. The method of monitoring queued hardware instructions to protect operations of a wireless device that includes a hardware pipeline, the method comprising: accessing instructions currently queued in the hardware pipeline (“queued instructions”); determining whether executing the queued instructions could result in a malicious configuration based on information included in a malicious and pathway configuration database received from a network server; determining whether the queued instructions have already been executed in response to determining that executing the queued instructions could result in the malicious configuration; preventing execution of the queued instructions in response to determining that executing the queued instructions could result in the malicious configuration and that the queued instructions have not already been executed; and implementing malicious behavior mitigation in response to determining that executing the queued instructions could result in the malicious configuration and that the queued instructions have already been executed.