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Robot Vacuums Hacked To Shout Slurs At Their Owners
Friday October 11, 2024. 11:30 PM , from Slashdot
There were multiple reports of similar incidents across the United States and around the same time. One of them happened in Los Angeles, where a vacuum chased a dog while spewing hate. Another happened in El Paso, where the vac spewed slurs until it's owner turned it off. The attacks are apparently quite easy to pull off thanks to several known security vulnerabilities in Ecovacs, like a bad Bluetooth connector and a defective PIN system that is intended to safeguard video feeds and remote access but actually doesn't do any of that at all. A pair of cybersecurity researchers released a report on Ecovacs detailing the brand's multiple security flaws earlier this year. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/10/11/2011249/robot-vacuums-hacked-to-shout-slurs-at-their-ow...
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