Paper

AI-based Sound-Squatting Attack Made Possible

01 January 2022 Rodolfo V. Valentim, Idilio Drago, Federico Cerutti, Marco Mellia

This paper documents how AI can make sound-squatting attacks practical by generating convincing phonetic variants that are difficult to catch with traditional approaches.

It is relevant to cybersecurity because it highlights a less obvious abuse surface, one that matters for brand protection, domain defence, and multilingual phishing detection.