{"id":101365,"date":"2018-05-31T14:58:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=101365"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:27:28","slug":"ai-smart-assistant-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ai-smart-assistant-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa and other smart assistants found to be vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI voice assistant\u2019s like Amazon\u2019s Alexa and Google\u2019s Assistant have seen their popularity soar over the last few years. This will only continue, but placing highly tuned distance microphones all over your home raises certain security issues.<\/strong> If they can always hear, does that mean that they\u2019re always listening? The developers say no, and laud the security technology they\u2019ve bundled into their AI, but researchers at a series of universities have found some alarming vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

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The problem lies in the rapidly expanding number of voice assistant apps that are rolling out across the different platforms. Alexa and Assistant are the two biggest platforms and users can add third-party skills <\/strong>or actions <\/strong>to their voice assistant. These new apps are the raison d\u2019etre behind the blog players developing voice assistants as a platform. They want to control a whole new marketplace.<\/p>\n

As pointed out on the MalwareBytes blog<\/a>, the researchers have discovered a particular vulnerability called voice squatting<\/strong> or masquerading<\/strong>:<\/p>\n