Ouroboros: Self-Referential Backdoor Attacks on Speech Enhancement via Clean Audio Triggers
Researchers reveal that speech-enhancement front-ends—common in enterprise voice services—can be backdoored with innocuous audio triggers, a class of attack previously limited to classifiers.
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arXiv:2608.30329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech enhancement models are widely deployed as frontend modules in real-time speech services, yet their vulnerability to backdoor attacks remains unexplored. Existing backdoor methods are confined to classification tasks and rely on active trigger injection, an assumption incompatible with the passive processing nature of speech enhancement models. In this paper, we propose Ouroboros, a novel backdoor attack framework that leverages the ideal
Editorial Analysis
Enterprises deploying real-time voice services with ML-based enhancement should recognise that backdoor risks extend beyond classification models to preprocessing pipelines.
Inventory speech-enhancement models in production voice systems and verify provenance of pretrained weights.
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