HOW APPLE SIRI & ANDROID GOOGLE NOW CAN NOW BE HACKED RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES
by PASSIVE CASH STACKER
Recently the French Government division of Digital Security were able to hack both the Apple Siri Digital Assistant and the Android Google Now Digital Assistant with some basic computer software that can be easily acquired. Using the unsuspecting targets headphones with microphone attached as an antenna to boost the hacking signal. The Digital Security agency was able to hack phones between 5 & 15 feet away. Yes this is a close proximity, yet they commented that if they had a van with a large battery setup they could hack thousands of phones at once from a much longer distance. Imagine a van parked in the middle of New York Time Square as evening rush hour commuters and people walking pass by. The said the potential
Kevin Tofel at ZDNET stated : "The attacking method uses connected headphones in an iPhone or Android
handset to act as a receiving antenna; similar to how FM radio chips do
so inside mobile devices.With the open source GNU Radio software on a laptop, electromagnetic
signals can be sent to those devices. Depending on the sent command,
Siri or Google Now can told to open up a website, send a text, place a
call or do any other number of things."
Stephani Mlot at PC MAG stated : "The hacker, therefore, could silently use the radio attack to make
calls, send texts, eavesdrop, navigate the browser to a malware site,
or send spam and phishing messages via email and social media."
"Hackers could use radio waves transmitted from the antenna of the
headphones to eavesdrop on private conversations, send the device
browser to a malware site or shoot spam and phishing messages through
email and social media sites — such as Facebook and Twitter" — Wired magazine reported.
"The possibility of inducing parasitic signals on the audio front-end of
voice-command-capable devices could raise critical security impacts,"
the French researchers, Jose Lopes Esteves and Chaouki Kasmi, said in a paper published by the IEEE.
The possibilities and ramifications of this could be financially devastating and let us not forget to mention the privacy intrusion that strips us of another layer of liberty.
