"Researchers Show Alexa 'Skill Squatting' Could Hijack Voice Commands"

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has described an attack method, called skill squatting, that could be used to phish users of the Amazon Echo. The attack involves the exploitation of errors made in the voice processing performed by Alexa. This article continues to discuss the research behind the skill squatting attack on Amazon Alexa and other attacks on voice-enabled technologies. 

Ars Technica reports "Researchers Show Alexa 'Skill Squatting' Could Hijack Voice Commands"