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Robots-perisons chased at pets and shouted insults due to hacking
Hackers hacked Chinese Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni robots in several cities in the United States. Attackers managed to access the management of vacuum cleaners, which allowed to shout insults through the speakers built into them. It is reported by ABC.
One of the victims was a lawyer from Minnesota Daniel Svenson. According to the publication, he watched the TV when the vacuum cleaner began to fail. "The sound was like an intermittent radio signal or something like that." You could hear scraps, probably, voices, ”he said ABC.
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Svenson rebooted the vacuum cleaner and threw off the password, after which he returned to watching the TV with a 13-year-old son. However, almost immediately, the robot permissive began to move, and racist curses were heard from its speakers.
According to Svenson, he was glad that the hackers "so loudly declared their presence." According to him, it would be much worse if they decided to quietly watch his family.
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Another robot permutal of the same model was hacked in Los Angeles. There, the device was chasing the dog of its owner and also shouted offensive phrases. Another case of hacking occurred in the city of El Paso (Texas).
ABC notes that it is not known how many robots-percussions were hacked. Six months before, security experts tried to notify Ecovacs of significant drawbacks in the security system of vacuum cleaners and the application that controls them.
The most serious was the defect in the Bluetooth connector, writes ABC, which made it possible to get full access to the vacuum cleaner from a distance of more than 100 meters. However, according to the publication, hackers hardly used this vulnerability.
Ecovacs said that during an internal investigation, the technical team determined the IP addresses of hackers and turned it off to prevent further hacks. The company also told ABC that “did not find any evidence” that the accounts were hacked as a result of “any violation in Ecovacs systems”.
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