For this #ThrowbackThursday, we will look at #ACSAC2025's Cyber-Physical Systems session. The links in this thread will lead you to the paper pdfs and the slide decks, so be sure to check them out! 1/6
First in the session came Fakih et al.'s "Invisible Ears at Your Fingertips: Acoustic Eavesdropping via Mouse Sensors", showing how optical mice can covertly capture speech through surface vibrations. (https://www.acsac.org/2025/program/final/s80.html) 2/6
#SideChannelAttack #CyberSecurity
Second up was Achamyeleh et al.'s "Environmental Rate Manipulation Attacks on Power Grid Security," a stealthy hardware Trojan that triggers on rapid environmental changes to disrupt inverters and threaten grid stability. (https://www.acsac.org/2025/program/final/s92.html) 3/6
#CyberPhysicalSystems
Third in the session was Murali et al.'s "SnoopDog: Detecting USB Bus Sniffers Using Responsive EMR" on detecting USB sniffers via bait traffic and correlated EMR with low overhead. (https://www.acsac.org/2025/program/final/s432.html) 4/6
#USBSecurity
In the session's fourth slot was Xu et al.'s "Controllable Spoofing Attacks on Visual SLAM in Robotic Vehicles" on SLAMTricker, a practical, highly controllable spoofing framework for vSLAM. (https://www.acsac.org/2025/program/final/s209.html) 5/6
#vSLAM #VehicleSecurity
Concluding the session was Kim et al.'s "ORT: Unintended Text Recognition from Eyeglass Reflections in Video Conferencing Environments" showing automated OCR can accurately extract reflected text from eyeglasses in video calls. (https://www.acsac.org/2025/program/final/s290.html) 6/6
#Privacy