Jiachun Li, Yan Meng, Le Zhang, Fazhong Liu, Haojin Zhu
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Abstract
The rapid development of virtual meetings brings much convenience to the user. Due to the limited battery size of smart devices, it is quite common to attend meetings while charging. However, the interface of charging also opens the door to performing audio injection attacks, which may cause series results in the meetings. In this study, based on this insight, we propose a voice injection attack for daily meetings, which is named EM-Whisperer. By modifying simple Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) devices, the attacker can inject the malicious voice stealthily and remotely with the assistance of the Frequency Modulated (FM) electromagnetic wave. For the designation of EM-Whisperer, we set up two phases: the content based analysis and the voice injection implementation. The content based analysis can be utilized for the selection of the attacking malicious words. After this phase, we can perform the proposed voice injection attacks. Finally, We implement EM-Whisperer for various virtual meeting scenarios in which users utilize various smart devices, including smartphones, laptops, and personal computers. It can achieve more than 90% in attack success rate when facing various impact factors, which proves the superiority of the proposed attacks among existing works.