Warning: Hackers can access smart speakers
Now, as the trend of smart home grows, this also becomes the ideal target for hackers to exploit vulnerabilities in smart devices from refrigerators and televisions to smart speakers to perform behavior. unrighteous.
Researchers at Trend Micro have conducted a study to find vulnerabilities in smart devices and discover two Sonos Play smart speakers: One and Bose SoundTouch contain critical vulnerabilities that allow hackers to exploit them.
Through Internet scanning tools like Nmap and Shodan, hackers can find speakers online and play any audio files they want.
Mark Nunnikhoven, director of research at Trend Micro, said that not all devices are as safe as many people think. Hundreds of thousands of other devices can also be compromised.
This may explain why some customers recently reported that they heard strange and scary sounds coming from smart speakers.
As soon as it received a vulnerability notice from Trend Micro, Sonos quickly launched an update for its device to restrict access to them. Meanwhile, Bose also received a warning but no response.
Although the flaw does not lead to serious threats, it shows that any device that can connect to the Internet can become a target for hackers. Therefore they need to be the safest encryption manufacturer.
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