{"id":183250,"date":"2024-02-21T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/voltschemer-attacks-use-wireless-chargers-to-inject-voice-commands-fry-phones"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:26:00","slug":"voltschemer-attacks-use-wireless-chargers-to-inject-voice-commands-fry-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/voltschemer-attacks-use-wireless-chargers-to-inject-voice-commands-fry-phones","title":{"rendered":"VoltSchemer attacks use wireless chargers to inject voice commands, fry phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voltschemer-attacks-use-wireless-chargers-to-inject-voice-commands-fry-phones2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called \u2018VoltSchemer\u2019 can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone\u2019s voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger.<\/p>\n<p>VoltSchemer can also be used to cause physical damage to the mobile device and to heat items close to the charger to a temperature above 536F (280C).<\/p>\n<p>A technical paper signed by researchers at the University of Florida and CertiK describes VoltSchemer as an attack that leverages electromagnetic interference to manipulate the charger\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called \u2018VoltSchemer\u2019 can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone\u2019s voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger. VoltSchemer can also be used to cause physical damage to the mobile device and to heat items close to the charger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}