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🇺🇸 — Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple cities, blast racial slurs on speakers
🔶 Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.
🔶 Multiple people all based in the US, have reported similar hacking incidents within days of each other.
🔶 It is unclear how many of the company's devices were hacked in total.
🔶 Security researchers had attempted to notify Ecovacs of significant security flaws in its robot vacuums and the app that controls them, but no response or update was subsequently issued.
🔗 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/robot-vacuum-yells-racial-slurs-at-family-after-being-hacked/104445408
🔶 Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.
🔶 Multiple people all based in the US, have reported similar hacking incidents within days of each other.
🔶 It is unclear how many of the company's devices were hacked in total.
🔶 Security researchers had attempted to notify Ecovacs of significant security flaws in its robot vacuums and the app that controls them, but no response or update was subsequently issued.
🔗 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/robot-vacuum-yells-racial-slurs-at-family-after-being-hacked/104445408