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Experimental AI can steal PINs and passwords by listening to finger taps

Keyloggers aren’t the only way malicious hackers can get at your phone or tablet’s passcode.

In a preprint paper “A new acoustic side channel on smartphones“ published on Arxiv.org this week, researchers describe a novel attack that recovers characters typed on a virtual keyboard from sounds generated by finger taps.

“We found the device’s microphone(s) can recover