A virtual meeting in the Meta Horizon Workrooms
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Someone typing on a physical keyboard while attending a virtual reality meeting could end up leaking passwords and other sensitive information to an attacker who uses artificial intelligence to interpret the avatar’s subtle hand movements.
Researchers trained AIs to analyse each individual person’s virtual avatar hand movements and reconstruct most keystrokes typed by the avatar’s user over the course of 10 or 15-minute typing sessions. They tested the vulnerability in Meta Horizon Workrooms, a virtual office platform provided by Meta. …