Multilingual Speech Translation App “VoiceTra”: Updated Version Released and Service Resumed

The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has completed its response to a security issue identified in the multilingual speech translation app “VoiceTra” and has released an updated version of the app. Accordingly, the VoiceTra service, which had been temporarily suspended, has now been fully resumed.

NICT has released VoiceTra ver. 9.2.1, which addresses the issue related to destination restriction. Users running ver. 9.1.3 or 9.2.0 are prompted with a message to update to the latest version of the app.

If you are using VoiceTra ver. 9.1.3 or ver. 9.2.0, please update to ver. 9.2.1 from the App Store or Google Play.

At this time, no attacks exploiting the issue addressed in the updated version, or any resulting information leakage have been confirmed.

To protect the users, the VoiceTra service was temporarily suspended. With the release of the updated app and the completion of the necessary measures to ensure a secure operating environment, the service has now been fully resumed.

NICT will continue to take necessary measures to ensure the safe and secure use of VoiceTra. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to users by the temporary suspension of the service.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to RyotaK of GMO Flatt Security Inc. for reporting this issue and for assisting in verifying the fix.