The flaws “allowed an attacker within wireless proximity to install a ‘backdoor’ …
More Conspiracy Theories Proven – Researcher Uncovers Potential Wiretapping Bugs in Google Home Smart Speakers
Ravie Lakshmanan with The Hacker News reports:
A security researcher was awarded a bug bounty of $107,500 for identifying security issues in Google Home smart speakers that could be exploited to install backdoors and turn them into wiretapping devices.
The flaws “allowed an attacker within wireless proximity to install a ‘backdoor’ account on the device, enabling them to send commands to it remotely over the internet, access its microphone feed, and make arbitrary HTTP requests within the victim’s LAN,” the researcher, who goes by the name Matt Kunze, disclosed in a technical write-up published this week.
