These sinister noises could hijack your phone through voice commands

Jan25

by Sindy Cator on January 25, 2017 at 2:09 pm

The noise you’re about to hear wasn’t cut from the upcoming Ring remake. I didn’t steal it from a god-fucking-awful Eli Roth film. It was created by security researchers, trying to find ways to trick the voice-assistant systems we all use. The researchers, who were based at UC Berkley and Georgetown University, examined the way in which voice-recognition based AI assistants popular on most modern smartphones could be used an attack vector. The attack used voice commands that were intentionally obfuscated, so that a human listener would be unable to identify what they are, but would be recognizable by a…