{"id":865960,"date":"2024-10-14T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=865960"},"modified":"2024-10-14T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T05:22:07","slug":"hackers-hijack-robot-vacuums-in-multiple-us-cities-heres-what-happened-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/14\/hackers-hijack-robot-vacuums-in-multiple-us-cities-heres-what-happened-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers hijack robot vacuums in multiple US cities, here\u2019s what happened next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuums in US cities were recently hacked. This allowed attackers to remotely control the devices and broadcast racial slurs through their built-in speakers. This incident follows a report by the ABC, which demonstrated a critical security flaw in the Chinese-made robot vacuum model. The hackers exploited this vulnerability to gain unauthorised access to the Deebot X2s, enabling them to manipulate the vacuums&#8217; movements and utilise the speakers for malicious purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuums in US cities were recently hacked. This allowed attackers to remotely control the devices and broadcast racial slurs through their built-in speakers. This incident follows a report by the ABC, which demonstrated a critical security flaw in the Chinese-made robot vacuum model. The hackers exploited this vulnerability to gain unauthorised access to the Deebot X2s, enabling them to manipulate the vacuums&#8217; movements and utilise the speakers for malicious purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}