New ultrasonic attacks can issue malicious commands to voice assistants and smart home devices [TechSpot]

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,…Read Entire Article