CVE-2017-1000251

Millions of AI-based voice-activated personal assistants, including Google Home and Amazon Echo, are affected by the Blueborne flaws. A series of recently disclosed critical Bluetooth flaws that affect billions of Android, iOS, Windows and Linux devices have now been discovered in Millions of AI-based voice-activated personal assistants, including Google Home and Amazon Echo, are affected by the recently discovered Blueborne vulnerabilities. The recently […]

Amazon Echo and Google Home devices are vulnerable to attacks exploiting a series of recently disclosed Bluetooth flaws dubbed “ BlueBorne .”

Eight zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the Android, Windows, Linux and iOS implementations of Bluetooth can be exploited by attackers to extract information from, execute malicious code on, or perform a MitM attack against vulnerable devices. The vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed BlueBorne by the researchers who discovered them, can be exploited without users having to click on a link or download a questionable file – in fact, no action by the user is required to perform the attack. … More →

When Armis researchers demonstrated BlueBorne, an attack that takes advantage of vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth protocol, it was downright frightening how easily an attacker could take remote control over the device. View all files saved on the device? Sure—and it’s a snap to encrypt those files as part of a ransomware attack. Turn on the camera? […]