Researchers from the University of Texas, San Antonio, and the University of Colorado have developed new ultrasound attacks dubbed NUIT, or Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan, which can exploit vulnerabilities in microphone-equipped IoT devices and voice assistants such as Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana. The attacks are inaudible to humans,…
New ultrasonic attacks can issue malicious commands to voice assistants and smart home devices
Researchers from the University of Texas, San Antonio, and the University of Colorado have developed new ultrasound attacks dubbed NUIT, or Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan, which can exploit vulnerabilities in microphone-equipped IoT devices and voice assistants such as Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana. The attacks are inaudible to humans,…