Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named 'BLUFFS' that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, allowing for device impersonation and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.
  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    221·
    11 months ago

    So basically all Bluetooth devices are affected? This is huge news.

    • akrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      11 months ago

      It’s also crazy how there is this push from all OEM to remove headphone jack and force consumers to use wireless earphones, further making the attack surface much wider.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        Even now I think we should’ve added a second USB Port if we were going to remove the headphone jack.

        • runefehay@kbin.social
          5·
          11 months ago

          A second USB port or headphone jack adds $1(US) to the manufacturing cost, if even that. Can’t cut into the corporation’s massive profits by even a little. Nope, can’t have that.

    • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      34·
      11 months ago

      I wonder if it would still be an issue had Bluetooth won the wireless network stack war.

      • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Wireless Network Stack War? Do you mind enlightening me? I’ve never heard of such a thing.

        • db2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          36·
          11 months ago

          It came down to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to be the wireless network standard. For a hot minute it wasn’t clear who would come out the winner.

          I can’t find shit about it though. It was around 2000ish.

          • Gray@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            11 months ago

            You’re probably thinking about homerf, which was the competitor to WiFi. I don’t think Bluetooth was ever marketed as an alternative to WiFi.

          • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
            61·
            11 months ago

            Bluetooth has it’s own stack. Wifi typically runs tcpip. Your post doesn’t even make sense because both wifi and Bluetooth coexist today so clearly there was no “winner”.

          • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            Oh wow, I’m glad Bluetooth lost given that it’s vastly inferior. I mean we’re even starting to see wifi headphones now, soon Bluetooth will be relegated to legacy devices.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
    181·
    11 months ago

    When these kinds of exploits are discovered, my first fear is people with Flipper Zeros running custom firmware exclusively for trolling…

    Imagine you’re listening to music in your headphones (or in your car with Bluetooth), then without warning it reconnects and now you’re hearing baby shark 😣

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I have a Bluetooth amp in my kitchen. I live in a row home. One day it started blasting country music… Turned it off for a couple hours, never happened again. Probably a curious neighbor, but still funny.