Think of a thriller scene. Our main character watches television in his living room with the lights off. Suddenly someone from the kitchen click belongs. As he heads towards the kitchen, he sees the robot vacuum cleaner working. to yourself “Didn’t I plan this to work in the morning?” As he asks, the broom turns and begins to approach our protagonist. We see the reflection of our protagonist in the vacuum cleaner camera, but behind him is a dark silhouette. When our main character realizes this and turns around, he sees a text: “You’re not alone!”

According to a new study, this is a student-made script for a horror movie experience the first part very possible. It was revealed that Chinese manufacturer Ecovacs, the world’s largest maker of robot vacuum cleaners, had not fixed the vulnerability that allowed robot vacuum cleaners to be hacked and images from their cameras to be leaked.

Discovered in security research

Ecovacs was informed of this problem a year ago. security researcher Dennis Giese with journalist Julian felltried to hack the company’s flagship model, Deebot X2, with the owner’s permission. Binary device from a distance of 140 metersmanaged to hack it via Bluetooth without touching hands.

The researchers managed to move the robot vacuum cleaner, reach the camera and microphone, access all the sensors on it, and such as Wi-Fi information information managed to get it. It even turned out to be possible to turn off the camera sound while the camera was recording.

To make things even scarier, the duo uses a robot vacuum cleaner to “Hello Sean (owner of the robot vacuum cleaner), I’m watching you” He even managed to say and laugh.

What do you think of this chilling vulnerability? We await your comments.