Security flaws expose Bluetooth devices from some of the world’s largest vendors to attack.
Singapore University of Technology and Design researchers have revealed a family of 20 vulnerabilities, which they collectively dubbed BrakTooth, that affect more than 1,400 products based on 13 different Bluetooth devices sold by 11 of the world’s leading vendors. The security flaws were confirmed to affect 1,400 smartphones, laptops, keyboards, headphones, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. But that’s a minimum. „As the BT stack is often shared across many products,“ the researchers said, „it is highly probable that many other products (beyond the ≈1400 entries observed in Bluetooth listing) are affected by BrakTooth.
