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Vulnerabilities found in Bluetooth Low Energy gives hackers access to numerous devices.
A critical flaw found in Bluetooth Low Energy receivers may grant cyber criminals entry to anything from personal devices, such as phones or laptops, to even cars and houses.
These Bluetooth systems are used to lock items such as vehicles or residences that are using Bluetooth proximity authentication mechanisms that can be easily broken with cheap off-the-shelf hardware, according to the cybersecurity company.
One of the specified vehicles known to be affected by this exploit are the Tesla Models 3 and Y. "This research circumvents typical countermeasures against remote adversarial vehicle unlocking, and changes the way engineers and consumers alike need to think about the security of Bluetooth Low Energy communications," Khan added.
Users of affected products should disable passive unlock functionality that does not require explicit user approval, or disable Bluetooth on mobile devices when it's not needed.
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