Researchers from Royal Holloway University in London and Italy’s University of Catania found....an Amazon Echo attacker can control smart lights with a 93% success rate, successfully buy unwanted items on Amazon 100% of the times, and tamper [with] a linked calendar with 88% success rate. Complex commands that have to be recognized correctly in their entirety to succeed, such as calling a phone number, have an almost optimal success rate, in this case 73%.
Additionally, ... the attacker can successfully set up a Voice Masquerading Attack via our Mask Attack skill without being detected, and all issued utterances can be retrieved and stored in the attacker’s database, namely 41 in our case.
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https://arstechnica.com/inform....ation-technology/202
