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March 10, 2020Bounty Programs
March 10, 2020Targeted Attacks on Voice Interfaces
Now that Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have moved from the fringe to the mainstream, we can expect to see targeted attacks of these popular voice interfaces.
Now that Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant have moved from the fringe to the mainstream, we can expect to see targeted attacks of these popular voice interfaces.
In 2018, professors at Technion Israel Institute of Technology and researchers at McAfee independently found flaws in Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant.
When security testing firm Checkmarx conducted penetration testing on Alexa, it inadvertently allowed potential hackers to make Echo listen continuously, rather than only when prompted by a user. (Amazon fixed the vulnerability as soon as it was notified.)
Related trends
This trend is part of our section on Security. Other trends in this section include:
- Bounty Programs
- Magnetic Tape Supply Shortages
- Biometric Malware
- State-Sponsored Security Breaches
- Critical Infrastructure Targets
- Offensive Government Hacking
- Zero-Day Exploits on the Rise
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs Go Commercial
- Gaining Access to Backdoors
- Remote Kill Switches
- Insecure Supply Chains
- Data Manipulation Becomes The Greater Threat
- Consumer Device Targeting
- Cyber Risk Insurance
- A.I.-Powered Automated Hacking Systems
- Hijacking Internet Traffic
- DDoS Attacks on the Rise
- Third-Party Verified Identities
- Ransomware-as-a-Service
- Decentralized Hacktivists
- Targeted Attacks on Voice Interfaces
- Weird Glitches
- Open Source App Vulnerabilities
- Global Cybersecurity Pacts
- Proliferation of Darknets
This trend is related to the following industries:
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