Abstract
Recent trends in emerging applications have motivated researchers to
design advanced wireless systems to meet their evolving requirements.
These emerging applications include digital healthcare, intelligent
transportation systems, Industry 5.0, and more. To address the evolving
requirements, leveraging a metaverse to empower $6$G wireless systems
is a viable solution. A metaverse-empowered $6$G wireless system can
offer numerous benefits, but it may also be vulnerable to a wide variety
of security attacks. In this survey, we discuss potential security
attacks in metaverse-empowered $6$G wireless systems. We introduce an
architecture designed to enhance security within metaverse-empowered
$6$G wireless systems. This architecture comprises two key spaces: the
meta space and the physical space. We present physical space attacks and
outline effective solutions to secure metaverse-empowered $6$G
wireless systems. We provide invaluable insights and discussions on meta
space attacks, along with promising solutions. Finally, we discuss open
challenges and provide future recommendations.