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Side-channel information leakage is a known limitation of SGX. Researchers have demonstrated that secret-dependent information can be extracted from enclave execution through page-fault access patterns. Consequently, various recent research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Ferdinand Brasser , Urs Müller , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Recent proposals advocate using keystroke timing signals, specifically the coefficient of variation ($\delta$) of inter-keystroke intervals, to distinguish human-composed text from AI-generated content. We demonstrate that this class of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 David Condrey

When operating a machine, the operator needs to know some spatial relations, like the relative location of the target or the nearest obstacle. Often, sensors are used to derive this spatial information, and visual displays are deployed as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Tim Ziemer , Nuttawut Nuchprayoon , Holger Schultheis

Recent work has shown the possibility of adversarial attacks on automatic speechrecognition (ASR) systems. However, in the vast majority of work in this area, theattacks have been executed only in the digital space, or have involved short…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-18 Joseph Szurley , J. Zico Kolter

This paper shows that today's wireless charging interface is vulnerable to power side-channel attacks; a smartphone charging wirelessly leaks private information about its activity to the wireless charger (charging transmitter). We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Alexander S. La Cour , Khurram K. Afridi , G. Edward Suh

Differential Pressure Sensors are widely deployed to monitor critical environments. However, our research unveils a previously overlooked vulnerability: their high sensitivity to pressure variations makes them susceptible to acoustic…

Efficient key management for automotive networks (CAN) is a critical element, governing the adoption of security in the next generation of vehicles. A recent promising approach for dynamic key agreement between groups of nodes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Shalabh Jain , Qian Wang , Md Tanvir Arafin , Jorge Guajardo

Side-channel attacks that use machine learning (ML) for signal analysis have become prominent threats to computer security, as ML models easily find patterns in signals. To address this problem, this paper explores using Adversarial Machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hyoungwook Nam , Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi , Bo Li , Nam Sung Kim , Josep Torrellas

To develop a machine sound monitoring system, a method for detecting anomalous sound is proposed. In this paper, we explore a method for multiple clients to collaboratively learn an anomalous sound detection model while keeping their raw…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Kota Dohi , Yohei Kawaguchi

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

Recent work on Side Channel Analysis (SCA) targets old, well-known vulnerabilities, even previously exploited, reported, and patched in high-profile cryptography libraries. Nevertheless, researchers continue to find and exploit the same…

Over the last few years, a rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems that adopt voice as the primary user input have emerged. These systems have been shown to be vulnerable to various types of voice spoofing attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

This paper studies leakage of user passwords and PINs based on observations of typing feedback on screens or from projectors in the form of masked characters that indicate keystrokes. To this end, we developed an attack called Password and…

We are witnessing a heightened surge in remote privacy attacks on laptop computers. These attacks often exploit malware to remotely gain access to webcams and microphones in order to spy on the victim users. While webcam attacks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Soundarya Ramesh , Ghozali Suhariyanto Hadi , Sihun Yang , Mun Choon Chan , Jun Han

An adversarial attack is an exploitative process in which minute alterations are made to natural inputs, causing the inputs to be misclassified by neural models. In the field of speech recognition, this has become an issue of increasing…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Krishan Rajaratnam , Kunal Shah , Jugal Kalita

Recent advances in text-to-speech technologies have enabled realistic voice generation, fueling audio-based deepfake attacks such as fraud and impersonation. While audio anti-spoofing systems are critical for detecting such threats, prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Binh Nguyen , Shuji Shi , Ryan Ofman , Thai Le

Machine learning approaches for speech enhancement are becoming increasingly expressive, enabling ever more powerful modifications of input signals. In this paper, we demonstrate that this expressiveness introduces a vulnerability: advanced…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-01 Rostislav Makarov , Lea Schönherr , Timo Gerkmann

Side-channel attacks have become prominent attack surfaces in cyberspace. Attackers use the side information generated by the system while performing a task. Among the various side-channel attacks, cache side-channel attacks are leading as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ankit Pulkit , Smita Naval , Vijay Laxmi

AI assistants are becoming an integral part of society, used for asking advice or help in personal and confidential issues. In this paper, we unveil a novel side-channel that can be used to read encrypted responses from AI Assistants over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Roy Weiss , Daniel Ayzenshteyn , Guy Amit , Yisroel Mirsky

In this paper we present a method which allows attackers to covertly leak data from isolated, air-gapped computers. Our method utilizes the hard disk drive (HDD) activity LED which exists in most of today's desktop PCs, laptops and servers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Mordechai Guri , Boris Zadov , Eran Atias , Yuval Elovici