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Of course a Bluetooth-using home COVID test was cracked to fake results
2021-12-22 03:58

Security vendor F-Secure has faked a COVID test result on a Bluetooth-equipped home COVID Test.

The firm tested the Ellume COVID-19 Home Test, a device selected specifically because it uses a "Bluetooth connected analyzer for use with an app on your phone."

As F-Secure probed the device and its companion app, its researchers spotted an un-exported activity called com.

Further footling found two types of Bluetooth traffic related to communicating test results.

It gets worse: faked data produced by Ellume unit was happily ingested by an outfit named Azova that certifies the results of COVID tests so that travelers can enter the USA. F-Secure's post details a test in which one of its staff used the Ellume device to test for COVID, produced a negative result, but used the methods above to falsify the results.

The Register has asked Ellume for comment on F-Secure's research.


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