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At the Def Con 2023 conference for hackers and cybersecurity professionals, attendees saw an alarming potential security risk. Thanks to researcher Jae Bochs’…
At Def Con 2023, some attendees were shown in real-time how a relatively cheap device leveraging Bluetooth flaws can force bogus notifications and potentially get the user to surrender sensitive data.
At Def Con 2023, some attendees were shown in real-time how a relatively cheap device leveraging Bluetooth flaws can force bogus notifications and potentially get the user to surrender sensitive data.
Bochs told TechCrunch that all they needed for this experiment was a contraption consisting of a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, two antennas, a Linux-compatible Bluetooth adapter, and a portable battery. Bochs said that they focused on “proximity actions,” which appear on an iPhone screen when Apple devices are close to each other. Bochs also said they created a proof-of-concept that “builds a custom advertisement packet that mimics what Apple TV etc. are constantly emitting at low power,” effectively spoofing an Apple device that tries to repeatedly connect to nearby dev...