Side Eye Attack: Extracting Audio from Still Smartphone Images

A team of university researchers has devised a new optical-acoustic side channel attack dubbed ‘Side Eye,’ which can extract ambient sound from the environment at the time an image was taken. Considering that videos are a string of frames (still images), a rogue attacker could potentially use this method to record continuous sound from a …

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