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Learning Based Versatile Voice Eavesdropping Prevention for Mobile Devices
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DOI：10.1109/TMC.2025.3624756.png)
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Voice-enabled <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">mobile applications</i> (apps) are exploding in popularity as they could be manipulated with voice commands to achieve convenient man-machine interaction. These voice-enabled apps also raise security and privacy concerns about whether they would maliciously invoke microphones to realize voice eavesdropping. To explore this issue, in this work, we design baleful apps to access the microphone covertly, the results of test studies demonstrate that covert eavesdropping attacks can bypass existing device detection schemes as well as are unnoticeable to human users. To prevent the covert voice eavesdropping attack, we propose a versatile <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">microphone icon detection</i> (MicID) scheme inspired by the groundtruth that authorization of the voice function requires the user to touch the specific microphone icon in most of voice-based apps. Specifically, we devise a deep learning model, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">lightweight YOLO</i> (L-YOLO), to locate the microphone icon on the screen quickly and accurately. By determining whether the located microphone icon is touched by the user, we can judge whether the current microphone access belongs to the app’s normal operation or illegal eavesdropping. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments by deploying the scheme on real devices and collecting dataset. The evaluation results show that the proposed MicID scheme achieves more than 99% accuracy with low computation cost.
Keywords:
Mobile applications
eavesdropping attack
mobile devices
deep learning
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