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Inaudible voice command injection is one of the most threatening attacks towards voice assistants. Existing attacks aim at injecting the attack signals over the air, but they require the access to the authorized user's voice for activating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Yuanda Wang , Hanqing Guo , Qiben Yan

Voice Processing Systems (VPSes), now widely deployed, have been made significantly more accurate through the application of recent advances in machine learning. However, adversarial machine learning has similarly advanced and has been used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Hadi Abdullah , Washington Garcia , Christian Peeters , Patrick Traynor , Kevin R. B. Butler , Joseph Wilson

This paper investigates the privacy leakage of smart speakers under an encrypted traffic analysis attack, referred to as voice command fingerprinting. In this attack, an adversary can eavesdrop both outgoing and incoming encrypted voice…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Chenggang Wang , Sean Kennedy , Haipeng Li , King Hudson , Gowtham Atluri , Xuetao Wei , Wenhai Sun , Boyang Wang

Air-gapped systems are considered highly secure against data leaks due to their physical isolation from external networks. Despite this protection, ultrasonic communication has been demonstrated as an effective method for exfiltrating data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mordechai Guri

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), equipped with numerous sensors such as camera, LiDAR, radar, and ultrasonic sensor, are revolutionizing the transportation industry. These sensors are expected to sense reliable information from a physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jianzhi Lou , Qiben Yan , Qing Hui , Huacheng Zeng

Speaker Verification (SV) is widely deployed in mobile systems to authenticate legitimate users by using their voice traits. In this work, we propose a backdoor attack MASTERKEY, to compromise the SV models. Different from previous attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Hanqing Guo , Xun Chen , Junfeng Guo , Li Xiao , Qiben Yan

We present METAATTACK, the first approach to leverage acoustic metamaterials for inaudible attacks for voice control systems. Compared to the state-of-the-art inaudible attacks requiring complex and large speaker setups, METAATTACK achieves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhiyuan Ning , Juan He , Zhanyong Tang , Weihang Hu , Xiaojiang Chen

The emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven audio attacks has revealed new security vulnerabilities in voice control systems. While researchers have introduced a multitude of attack strategies targeting voice control systems (VCS),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yuanda Wang , Qiben Yan , Nikolay Ivanov , Xun Chen

This paper presents a novel attack on voice-controlled digital assistants using nonsensical word sequences. We present the results of experimental work which demonstrates that it is possible for malicious actors to gain covert access to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Mary K. Bispham , Ioannis Agrafiotis , Michael Goldsmith

Voice assistants are now ubiquitous and listen in on our everyday lives. Ever since they became commercially available, privacy advocates worried that the data they collect can be abused: might private conversations be extracted by third…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Almos Zarandy , Ilia Shumailov , Ross Anderson

Intelligent Personal Assistant (IA), also known as Voice Assistant (VA), has become increasingly popular as a human-computer interaction mechanism. Most smartphones have built-in voice assistants that are granted high privilege, which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Rongjunchen Zhang , Xiao Chen , Jianchao Lu , Sheng Wen , Surya Nepal , Yang Xiang

The widespread adoption of voice-activated systems has modified routine human-machine interaction but has also introduced new vulnerabilities. This paper investigates the susceptibility of automatic speech recognition (ASR) algorithms in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Forrest McKee , David Noever

The widespread use of smart devices gives rise to both security and privacy concerns. Fingerprinting smart devices can assist in authenticating physical devices, but it can also jeopardize privacy by allowing remote identification without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

Speech is a common and effective way of communication between humans, and modern consumer devices such as smartphones and home hubs are equipped with deep learning based accurate automatic speech recognition to enable natural interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Moustafa Alzantot , Bharathan Balaji , Mani Srivastava

We demonstrate how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection in multi-modal LLMs. An attacker generates an adversarial perturbation corresponding to the prompt and blends it into an image or audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Tsung-Yin Hsieh , Ben Nassi , Vitaly Shmatikov

Voice assistants are deployed widely and provide useful functionality. However, recent work has shown that commercial systems like Amazon Alexa and Google Home are vulnerable to voice-based confusion attacks that exploit design issues. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ashish Hooda , Matthew Wallace , Kushal Jhunjhunwalla , Earlence Fernandes , Kassem Fawaz

Voice control is a popular way to operate mobile devices, enabling users to communicate requests to their devices. However, adversaries can leverage voice control to trick mobile devices into executing commands to leak secrets or to modify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Giuseppe Petracca , Yuqiong Sun , Ahmad Atamli , Trent Jaeger

It is possible to manipulate the headphones (or earphones) connected to a computer, silently turning them into a pair of eavesdropping microphones - with software alone. The same is also true for some types of loudspeakers. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Mordechai Guri , Yosef Solewicz , Andrey Daidakulov , Yuval Elovici

Personal voice assistants (VAs) are shown to be vulnerable against record-and-replay, and other acoustic attacks which allow an adversary to gain unauthorized control of connected devices within a smart home. Existing defenses either lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Dominika Woszczyk , Alvin Lee , Soteris Demetriou

Large Language Models (LLMs), while powerful, are built and trained to process a single text input. In common applications, multiple inputs can be processed by concatenating them together into a single stream of text. However, the LLM is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Keegan Hines , Gary Lopez , Matthew Hall , Federico Zarfati , Yonatan Zunger , Emre Kiciman