Tarlogic detects a hidden feature in the mass-market ESP32 chip that could infect millions of IoT devices
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Tarlogic presents research revealing undocumented commands in the ESP32 microchip, present in millions of smart devices with Bluetooth
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Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.

Update: The ESP32 “backdoor” that wasn’t.

  • ManixT@lemmy.worldEnglish
    313·
    8 hours ago

    I agree we shouldn’t be racist against Chinese people, but you’re ignorant. From wikipedia: ESP32 is created and developed by Espressif Systems, a Chinese company based in Shanghai, and is manufactured by TSMC using their 40 nm process.It is a successor to the ESP8266 microcontroller.

    So it’s designed/developed in China and manufactured in Taiwan; not China.

    • fuamerikkka@lemm.eeEnglish
      617·
      8 hours ago

      Dog whistling.

      This has nothing to do with the chip or who makes it.

      It’s the way it’s written.

      You missed the point.

        • fuamerikkka@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          60 seconds ago

          Like how I clearly said the article had been posted before without mentioning China, especially in the article itsef, never mind in the post? Which obviously shows it was more about the title of the post?

          I bow to YOUR mental gymnastics and ignorance combined with brute confidence.

          Tell me you don’t know anything about anti racism without telling me you don’t know anything about anti racism.

          Read a book.

          You’ll sound less stupid (maybe).

          But you don’t think buying a Tesla, Tesla stock, makes you a Nazi or a Nazi sympathizer so…

          This is why we’re in the state are in.

          Poison thrown at the wrong people.

          I’m not stealing your money, firing you, taking away your rights as a human being. I don’t think you’re a ‘parasite’.

          I’m not the 1%, neither are you.

          Focus on the real enemy. Then things will get done.