A survey on sensor-based threats and attacks to smart devices and applications

AK Sikder, G Petracca, H Aksu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern electronic devices have become “smart” as well as omnipresent in our day-to-day
lives. From small household devices to large industrial machines, smart devices have …

Survey on enterprise Internet-of-Things systems (E-IoT): A security perspective

LP Rondon, L Babun, A Aris, K Akkaya, AS Uluagac - Ad Hoc Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
As technology becomes more widely available, millions of users worldwide have installed
some form of smart device in their homes or workplaces. These devices are often off-the …

Characterizing sensor leaks in android apps

X Sun, X Chen, K Liu, S Wen, L Li… - 2021 IEEE 32nd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While extremely valuable to achieve advanced functions, mobile phone sensors can be
abused by attackers to implement malicious activities in Android apps, as experimentally …

The seven deadly sins of the HTML5 WebAPI: a large-scale study on the risks of mobile sensor-based attacks

M Diamantaris, F Marcantoni, S Ioannidis… - ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Modern smartphone sensors can be leveraged for providing novel functionality and greatly
improving the user experience. However, sensor data can be misused by privacy-invasive or …

This sneaky piggy went to the android ad market: Misusing mobile sensors for stealthy data exfiltration

M Diamantaris, S Moustakas, L Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Mobile sensors have transformed how users interact with modern smartphones and
enhance their overall experience. However, the absence of sufficient access control for …

Watch the Rhythm: Breaking Privacy with Accelerometer at the Extremely-Low Sampling Rate of 5Hz

Q Yao, Y Liu, X Sun, X Dong, X Ji, J Ma - … of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Considering the threat from on-board eavesdropping with smartphone motion sensors,
Android 12 has limited the maximum sampling rate of motion sensors to 200Hz for zero …

A large-scale study on the risks of the html5 webapi for mobile sensor-based attacks

F Marcantoni, M Diamantaris, S Ioannidis… - The World Wide Web …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Smartphone sensors can be leveraged by malicious apps for a plethora of different attacks,
which can also be deployed by malicious websites through the HTML5 WebAPI. In this …

TapSnoop: Leveraging tap sounds to infer tapstrokes on touchscreen devices

H Kim, B Joe, Y Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel tapstroke inference attack method, called TapSnoop, that precisely
recovers what user types on touchscreen devices. Inferring tapstrokes is challenging owing …

De-anonymizing VR Avatars using Non-VR Motion Side-channels

M Sabra, N Vinayaga-Sureshkanth, A Sharma… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Virtual Reality (VR) technology offers an immersive audio-visual experience to users
through which they can interact with a digitally represented 3D space (ie, a virtual world) …

Exploiting Out-of-band Motion Sensor Data to De-anonymize Virtual Reality Users

M Sabra, NV Sureshkanth, A Sharma, A Maiti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Virtual Reality (VR) is an exciting new consumer technology which offers an immersive
audio-visual experience to users through which they can navigate and interact with a …