Researchers exploit vulnerabilities of smart device microphones and voice assistants

Guenevere Chen, an associate professor in the UTSA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, recently published a paper on USENIX Security 2023 that demonstrates a novel inaudible voice trojan attack to exploit vulnerabilities of smart device microphones and voice assistants—like Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa or Amazon's Echo and Microsoft Cortana—and provide defense mechanisms for users.

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