Spoofing cyberattack can make cameras see things that aren’t there

A targeted transmission of vigor waves tin disrupt what a camera detects – and the exertion has the imaginable to fool object-detection systems into seeing things that aren’t there

Technology 26 September 2022

By David Hambling

This representation was produced by utilizing vigor waves to inject words and a representation of the skyline of Nagasaki, Japan, into a camera framework that would different person been black

Sebastian Köhler et al.

A cyberattack that uses vigor waves to fool image-recognition systems tin halt them working. So far, it tin disrupt a barcode scanner and change frames captured by cameras, but determination is the imaginable for it to besides enactment connected different types of integer detection systems and marque them spot things that aren’t there.

Digital cameras incorporate sensors that person airy …