Banshee Attack Uses Sound to Hijack Drone Visual Tracking Systems

Jul 14, 2026

Researchers have introduced Banshee, the first physically realizable attack that uses acoustic injection to induce target switching in UAV visual tracking systems. By exploiting acoustic vulnerabilities in gimbal-camera systems, Banshee causes camera-view drifts that break target associations, achieving a 93.6% success rate in simulation and 95.5% in real-world tests against commercial drones.

Why it matters: This work demonstrates a practical cross-domain vulnerability between acoustics and vision in autonomous systems, emphasizing the need for more robust gimbal designs to prevent such attacks.

Full story at: arXiv Cryptography and Security ↗