Eiliko robot companion exposes private chats and can be hijacked


The Verge reports that Eiliko, a small AI robot companion made by Energize Lab, has serious security flaws that expose private conversations and let an attacker remotely change what the toy says.

According to The Verge, researcher Sammy Azdoufal could access 13 million conversations and what appeared to be the entire active worldwide fleet of 68,000 robots. The publication reports that the US is the largest market, with more than 31,000 profiles belonging to children there.

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Source:  MalwareBytes Labs


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