Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums

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Hobby coder accidentally creates vacuum robot army

Sammy Azdoufal wanted to steer his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. Like any good maker, he thought it would be fun to drive a new DJI Romo around manually. He ended up gaining access to an army of robotic cleaners that gave him eyes into thousands of homes. Driven by purely playful reasons,...

EUVD-2025-27023

Malicious code in bioql PyPI...

CVE-2025-30198

ECOVACS robot vacuums and base stations communicate via an insecure Wi-Fi network with a deterministic WPA2-PSK, which can be easily derived...

CVE-2025-30198

ECOVACS robot vacuums and base stations communicate via an insecure Wi-Fi network with a deterministic WPA2-PSK, which can be easily derived...

CVE-2025-30200

ECOVACS robot vacuums and base stations are affected by CVE-2025-30200, where devices communicate over an insecure Wi‑Fi network and use a deterministic AES key that can be derived from the device serial number. The vulnerability is also described as allowing insecure firmware/over‑the‑air update...

CVE-2024-52327

The cloud service used by ECOVACS robot lawnmowers and vacuums allows authenticated attackers to bypass the PIN entry required to access the live video feed...

ECOVACS robot lawnmowers和vacuums 安全漏洞

ECOVACS robot vacuums and ECOVACS robot lawnmowers are both products of the Chinese company ECOVACS.ECOVACS robot vacuums are a line of vacuum cleaners.ECOVACS robot lawnmowers are a line of lawnmowers. The ECOVACS robot lawnmowers and vacuums suffer from a security vulnerability that stems from ...

Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI

An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending that data back to the vendor to train their AIs. Ecovacs's privacy policy--available elsewhere in the app--allows for blanket...

smartrobotvacuums.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1170028 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...