A survey on voice assistant security: Attacks and countermeasures

C Yan, X Ji, K Wang, Q Jiang, Z Jin, W Xu - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants (VA) have become prevalent on a wide range of personal devices such as
smartphones and smart speakers. As companies build voice assistants with extra …

Monkey says, monkey does: security and privacy on voice assistants

E Alepis, C Patsakis - IEEE Access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of smart mobile devices has radically redesigned user interaction, as these
devices are equipped with numerous sensors, making applications context-aware. To further …

Smart home voice assistants: a literature survey of user privacy and security vulnerabilities

K Sharif, B Tenbergen - Complex Systems Informatics and …, 2020 - csimq-journals.rtu.lv
Intelligent voice assistants are internet-connected devices, which listen to their environment
and react to spoken user commands in order to retrieve information from the internet, control …

Combating replay attacks against voice assistants

S Pradhan, W Sun, G Baig, L Qiu - … of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recently, there has been a surge in the popularity of voice-first devices, such as Amazon
Echo, Google Home, etc. While these devices make our life more convenient, they are …

The feasibility of injecting inaudible voice commands to voice assistants

C Yan, G Zhang, X Ji, T Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Voice assistants (VAs) such as Siri and Google Now have become an increasingly popular
human-machine interaction method and have made various systems voice controllable …

Hello me, meet the real me: Voice synthesis attacks on voice assistants

D Bilika, N Michopoulou, E Alepis, C Patsakis - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
The radical advances in telecommunications and computer science have enabled a myriad
of applications and novel seamless interactions with computing interfaces. Voice Assistants …

Smart home personal assistants: a security and privacy review

JS Edu, JM Such, G Suarez-Tangil - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
Smart Home Personal Assistants (SPA) are an emerging innovation that is changing the
means by which home users interact with technology. However, several elements expose …

Dangerous skills: Understanding and mitigating security risks of voice-controlled third-party functions on virtual personal assistant systems

N Zhang, X Mi, X Feng, XF Wang… - 2019 IEEE Symposium …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Virtual personal assistants (VPA)(eg, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant) today mostly rely
on the voice channel to communicate with their users, which however is known to be …

Personal voice assistant security and privacy—a survey

P Cheng, U Roedig - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personal voice assistants (PVAs) are increasingly used as interfaces to digital environments.
Voice commands are used to interact with phones, smart homes, or cars. In the United …

Hidden voice commands

N Carlini, P Mishra, T Vaidya, Y Zhang… - 25th USENIX security …, 2016 - usenix.org
Voice interfaces are becoming more ubiquitous and are now the primary input method for
many devices. We explore in this paper how they can be attacked with hidden voice …