I read in another article that the identified 28 backdoor commands.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
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Undocumented Commands Found In Bluetooth Chip Manufactured in China Used By a Billion Devices.
(www.tarlogic.com)
Source Link Privacy.
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.
Yeah one of my more… tech adventurous friends had the most insane series of security breaches (to out it mildly) potentially related to this and some other recent ridiculousness.
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So, what is the probability of it affecting a lot of people?
At this point I welcome them to come through.
Haha. I wear cheap Chinese bluetooth literally on my skull like 95% of the time, web when sleeping.
Hope they enjoy my thoughts.