1. A method of monitoring queued hardware instructions to protect operations of a wireless device that includes a hardware pipeline, comprising: accessing instructions currently queued in the hardware pipeline (“queued instructions”); determining a probability value that identifies a probability that executing the queued instructions will result in a malicious configuration based on likelihood values associated with the queued instructions included in a list of potentially malicious pathway instructions received from a network server; determining at runtime whether the probability value exceeds a risk threshold value; and preventing execution of the queued instructions in response to determining that the probability value exceeds the risk threshold value.