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#News(Security) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
Armis, an enterprise IoT security company, today announced that popular, voice-activated personal assistant devices including the Amazon Echo and Google Home were impacted by BlueBorne vulnerabilities recently discovered by Armis researchers. By exploiting unpatched devices, hackers can take them over, spread malware, and establish a “man-in-the-middle” attack to gain access to critical data, personal information, traffic and networks. BlueBorne is especially dangerous as hackers can execute airborne attacks through any vulnerable Bluetooth-enabled device without having to fool users by clicking on malicious links, downloading a file, or interacting with them in any way.
In the first wave of BlueBorne vulnerabilities announced, Armis said that more than 5 billion devices were subject to attack. In this new phase, researchers have confirmed the attack surface includes as many as 20 million Amazon Echo and Google Home devices running on Android and Linux. BlueBorne is the first severe airborne vulnerability found to affect the Amazon Echo; it doesn’t require an extensive physical attack.
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