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Acoustic side-channel attacks on keyboards can bypass security measures in many systems that use keyboards as one of the input devices. These attacks aim to reveal users' sensitive information by targeting the sounds made by their keyboards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Alireza Taheritajar , Reza Rahaeimehr

We present Alexa versus Alexa (AvA), a novel attack that leverages audio files containing voice commands and audio reproduction methods in an offensive fashion, to gain control of Amazon Echo devices for a prolonged amount of time. AvA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Sergio Esposito , Daniele Sgandurra , Giampaolo Bella

With the growing use of voice-activated systems and speech recognition technologies, the danger of backdoor attacks on audio data has grown significantly. This research looks at a specific type of attack, known as a Stochastic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Orson Mengara

Despite their immense popularity, deep learning-based acoustic systems are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks, wherein maliciously crafted audios trigger target systems to misbehave. In this paper, we present SirenAttack, a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Tianyu Du , Shouling Ji , Jinfeng Li , Qinchen Gu , Ting Wang , Raheem Beyah

The integration of Voice Control Systems (VCS) into smart devices and their growing presence in daily life accentuate the importance of their security. Current research has uncovered numerous vulnerabilities in VCS, presenting significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haozhe Xu , Cong Wu , Yangyang Gu , Xingcan Shang , Jing Chen , Kun He , Ruiying Du

A vishing attack is a form of social engineering where attackers use phone calls to deceive individuals into disclosing sensitive information, such as personal data, financial information, or security credentials. Attackers exploit the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 João Figueiredo , Afonso Carvalho , Daniel Castro , Daniel Gonçalves , Nuno Santos

As speech translation (ST) systems become increasingly prevalent, understanding their vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring robust and reliable communication. However, limited work has explored this issue in depth. This paper explores…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Chang Liu , Haolin Wu , Xi Yang , Kui Zhang , Cong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Tianwei Zhang , Qing Guo , Jie Zhang

Voice assistants have become quite popular lately while in parallel they are an important part of smarthome systems. Through their voice assistants, users can perform various tasks, control other devices and enjoy third party services. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Georgios Germanos , Dimitris Kavallieros , Nicholas Kolokotronis , Nikolaos Georgiou

With the development of foundation AI technologies, task-executable voice assistants (VAs) have become more popular, enhancing user convenience and expanding device functionality. Android task-executable VAs are applications that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shidong Pan , Yikai Ge , Xiaoyu Sun

Audio has become an increasingly crucial biometric modality due to its ability to provide an intuitive way for humans to interact with machines. It is currently being used for a range of applications, including person authentication to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Rishabh Ranjan , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Among storage components, hard disk drives (HDDs) have become the most commonly-used type of non-volatile storage due to their recent technological advances, including, enhanced energy efficacy and significantly-improved areal density. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Mohammad Shahrad , Arsalan Mosenia , Liwei Song , Mung Chiang , David Wentzlaff , Prateek Mittal

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

Recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing have fostered the enormous prosperity of smart voice assistants and their services, e.g., Alexa, Google Home, Siri, etc. However, voice spoofing attacks are deemed to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Chenpei Huang , Hui Zhong , Jie Lian , Pavana Prakash , Dian Shi , Yuan Xu , Miao Pan

A Machine-Critical Application is a system that is fundamentally necessary to the success of specific and sensitive operations such as search and recovery, rescue, military, and emergency management actions. Recent advances in Machine…

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

Manufacturers of smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly adding voice assistant and audio monitoring features to a wide range of devices including smart speakers, televisions, thermostats, security systems, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Richard Mitev , Anna Pazii , Markus Miettinen , William Enck , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Automatic speech recognition and voice identification systems are being deployed in a wide array of applications, from providing control mechanisms to devices lacking traditional interfaces, to the automatic transcription of conversations…

The combination of pre-trained speech encoders with large language models has enabled the development of speech LLMs that can handle a wide range of spoken language processing tasks. While these models are powerful and flexible, this very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Rao Ma , Mengjie Qian , Vyas Raina , Mark Gales , Kate Knill

Machine learning (ML) models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. Applications of ML to voice biometrics authentication are no exception. Yet, the implications of audio adversarial examples on these real-world systems remain…

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, projected to exceed 30 billion interconnected devices by 2030, has significantly escalated the complexity of cybersecurity challenges. This survey aims to provide a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Trung Dao , Minh Nguyen , Son Do , Hoang Tran