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Devil's Whisper is a BrainHack 2021 Showcase to raise awareness on audio Adversarial Attacks on smartphones and smart home devices.


Disclaimer

The audio Adversarial Attack's success may depend on various factors, including but not limited to:

Audio file type (wav, mp3)
Volume of audio
Speaker type and quality
Distance between speaker and target device
Background noise
Type of target device
Version of target device
Microphone sensitivity of the target

References

Code for adversarial attack adapted from https://github.com/RiskySignal/Devil-Whisper-Attack

Chen, Y., Yuan, X., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y., Zhang, S., Chen, K., & Wang, X. (2020). Devil's Whisper: A General Approach for Physical Adversarial Attacks against Commercial Black-box Speech Recognition Devices. USENIX Security Symposium.

GIF of Adversarial Image Patch obtained from https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/3/16844842/ai-computer-vision-trick-adversarial-patches-google.

Brown, T. B., Mané, D., Roy, A., Abadi, M., & Gilmer, J. (2017). Adversarial patch. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09665.

Attributions

Icons

  • Hacker Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com
  • All other Icons from Fontawesome

Photos

  • Whatsapp from Pexels by Alok Sharma
  • Google Home from Unsplash by Thomas Kolnowski

Audio Waveform

  • Audio Waveforms from Wavesurfer JS