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Undocumented Commands Found In Bluetooth Chip Manufactured in China Used By a Billion Devices. (www.tarlogic.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tarlogic.com%2Fnews%2Fbackdoor-esp32-chip-infect-ot-devices%2F&device=mobile&location=us-ca&force=false

Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.

Update: The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldnt be so sure about that. I've heard people say stuff that was mindbogglingly dumber than that, completely seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

it was in fact sarcasm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

thats what /s is for.