Hackers say smartphone voice commands can be spoofed from across the room

Google Voice and Siri by Apple have given smartphone owners by the millions a way of doing everything from drafting emails to getting directions by barely raising a finger. Now French security researchers say that hackers can do just as much on a victim’s device, and without even being within sight.

Jose Lopes Esteves and Chaouki Kasmi, a pair of researchers working for the government of France, demonstrated in a recent journal article how Android and Apple smartphones are susceptible to silent attacks that are achieved by exploiting the way those devices process electrical signals.“Numerous papers dealing with the analysis of electromagnetic attacks against critical electronic devices have been made publicly available. In this paper, we exploit the principle of front-door coupling on smartphones headphone cables with specific electromagnetic waveforms,” reads an abstract of their research published in August by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. For the full article click here 

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