Security News > 2020 > April > Radio frequency: An invisible espionage threat to enterprises

Cell phones, wearables, health performance monitors and IoT infrastructure devices all offer new and unmonitored threat surfaces to launch attacks in order to gain access to company networks and secrets.

From unmanageable device attacks and IoT devices being more vulnerable than corporate-managed computers to IoT security breaches, RF espionage is a growing concern for enterprises, but the concern still lags behind the threat.

The government has already accepted the threat of RF espionage: they now want to know every transmitting device in their facilities and what those devices are doing.

These affect billions of devices and are just the start, underscoring how immature security is for radio frequency protocols.

The SweynTooth vulnerabilities allow attackers to use radio signals to bypass security and take control of or shut down BLE devices.

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