Researchers at Trend Micro Inc., a Web-based security software company, found security holes in Sonos and Bose smartphones with public keys that hackers can remotely control with a simple web scan. "Wired" magazine first reported the news, saying Hackers can lock the Sonos and Bose branded Wi-Fi audio systems in place and take over the system remotely to play any music.
For now, hackers remotely access Sonos and Bose smartphones primarily for pranks, and Trend Micro researchers used the vulnerability to play Rick Astley's songs and intervene by sending commands A nearby Alexa-enabled system, one user at the Sonos Forum exposed another, more worrisome thing: her Sonos smart speaker box creaked at maximum volume, crying baby and falling glass Broken voice, so she was a lot of scared.
Fortunately, there is a relatively limited number of Sonos and Bose smart speakers with security holes, and the researchers found that 2,000 to 5,000 Sonos smartphones and less than 500 Bose smartphones were affected, a Sonos spokesman told TechCrunch. 'We The matter is under further investigation, but some of the issues that people actually reflect stem from the wrong network configuration, affecting only a handful of users and exposing their devices to public networks. We do not recommend that users do this In the short term, anyone who is concerned about this issue should ensure that the Sonos system is set up in a secure intranet environment.
In addition, Sonos also released a security patch to help fix the vulnerability, and we're still waiting for Bose's official response.
Trend Micro's latest report also reflects the user's concerns to some extent, they think the problem lies in the user's negligence on the network access device security and Wi-Fi speakers not high awareness of network security. Trend Micro's research director said: 'The main problem is that these speakers trust unsafe networks, and now we should be more aware of this risk if your device is a security hole, or in a random set of networks, then any one person All can be black into your speakers, control your playlist.
Perhaps nothing other than prank will have any other impact, but it reminds people once again that they pay special attention to the security of all connected devices in the home, from the router to the network devices, and in particular to the increasing privacy of us Captured with smart device with camera and microphone.