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July 1, 2016 – Devices such as a smartphone can be attacked through hidden voice commands that are not understandable to humans, according to a new study by Georgetown and University of California, Berkeley, computer scientists.
A paper describing how this can happen will be presented at the prestigious USENIX Security Symposium taking place in Austin, Texas, in August.
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“So a possible scenario could be that a million people watch a kitten video, and 10,000 of them have their phones nearby and 5,000 of those phones obey the attacker’s voice commands and load a URL with malware on it,” Sherr says. “Then you have 5,000 smartphones under an attacker’s control.”
https://www.georgetown.edu/hidden-voice-commands-sherr
Very interesting concept. I imagine in order to combat this you would have to either have voice print analysis for your voice only or give a prompt that tells you to approve the voice command.