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Power side-channel analysis (SCA) has been of immense interest to most embedded designers to evaluate the physical security of the system. This work presents profiling-based cross-device power SCA attacks using deep learning techniques on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Anupam Golder , Debayan Das , Josef Danial , Santosh Ghosh , Shreyas Sen , Arijit Raychowdhury

It is known that attackers can exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers through their speakers via sonic and ultrasonic waves. To eliminate the threat of such acoustic covert channels in sensitive systems, audio hardware can be disabled…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Mordechai Guri

Last-level cache side-channel attacks have been mostly demonstrated in highly-controlled, quiescent local environments. Hence, it is unclear whether such attacks are feasible in a production cloud environment. In the cloud, side channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zirui Neil Zhao , Adam Morrison , Christopher W. Fletcher , Josep Torrellas

Rigorous quantitative evaluation of microarchitectural side channels is challenging for two reasons. First, the processors, attacks, and defenses often exhibit probabilistic behaviors. These probabilistic behaviors arise due to natural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Weihang Li , Pete Crowley , Arya Tschand , Yu Wang , Miroslav Pajic , Daniel Sorin

Power side-channel (PSC) attacks are widely used in embedded microcontrollers, particularly in cryptographic applications, to extract sensitive information. However, expanding the applications of PSC attacks to broader security contexts in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Pouya Narimani , Meng Wang , Ulysse Planta , Ali Abbasi

Smartwatches enable many novel applications and are fast gaining popularity. However, the presence of a diverse set of on-board sensors provides an additional attack surface to malicious software and services on these devices. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Anindya Maiti , Murtuza Jadliwala , Jibo He , Igor Bilogrevic

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

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

Anomalous sound detection (ASD) is the task of identifying whether the sound emitted from an object is normal or anomalous. In some cases, early detection of this anomaly can prevent several problems. This article presents a Systematic…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Eduardo C. Nunes

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, the application of deepfake technology in the audio field has gradually increased, resulting in a wide range of security risks. Especially in the financial and social…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yangguang Feng

This paper proposes an upgraded electro-magnetic side-channel attack that automatically reconstructs the intercepted data. A novel system is introduced, running in parallel with leakage signal interception and catching compromising data in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Florian Lemarchand , Cyril Marlin , Florent Montreuil , Erwan Nogues , Maxime Pelcat

Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has gained popularity due to advancements in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, untrusted third-party platforms have raised concerns about AI security, particularly in backdoor attacks. Recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zhe Ye , Diqun Yan , Li Dong , Kailai Shen

Recent studies have shown that aggregate CPU usage and power consumption traces on smartphones can leak information about applications running on the system or websites visited. In response, access to such data has been blocked for mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Nikolay Matyunin , Yujue Wang , Tolga Arul , Kristian Kullmann , Jakub Szefer , Stefan Katzenbeisser

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems convert speech into text and can be placed into two broad categories: traditional and fully end-to-end. Both types have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial audio examples that sound benign…

Observation Resilient Authentication Schemes (ORAS) are a class of shared secret challenge-response identification schemes where a user mentally computes the response via a cognitive function to authenticate herself such that eavesdroppers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Francesca Trevisan , Haiyue Yuan

Replay speech attacks pose a significant threat to voice-controlled systems, especially in smart environments where voice assistants are widely deployed. While multi-channel audio offers spatial cues that can enhance replay detection…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Michael Neri , Tuomas Virtanen

Side-channel attacks exploit variations in non-functional behaviors to expose sensitive information across security boundaries. Existing methods leverage side-channels based on power consumption, electromagnetic radiation, silicon substrate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

Sound is a rich information medium that transmits through air; people communicate through speech and can even discern material through tapping and listening. To capture frequencies in the human hearing range, commercial microphones…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Monica S. Li , Hannah S. Stuart

Our research discovers how the rolling shutter and movable lens structures widely found in smartphone cameras modulate structure-borne sounds onto camera images, creating a point-of-view (POV) optical-acoustic side channel for acoustic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yan Long , Pirouz Naghavi , Blas Kojusner , Kevin Butler , Sara Rampazzi , Kevin Fu

We present a new hardware-agnostic side-channel attack that targets one of the most fundamental software caches in modern computer systems: the operating system page cache. The page cache is a pure software cache that contains all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daniel Gruss , Erik Kraft , Trishita Tiwari , Michael Schwarz , Ari Trachtenberg , Jason Hennessey , Alex Ionescu , Anders Fogh