Segway Hit by Magecart Attack Hiding in a Favicon

Segway, maker of the iconic – and much-spoofed – personal motorized transporter familiar from guided city tours everywhere, has been serving up a nasty credit-card harvesting skimmer via its website that’s likely linked to Magecart Group 12. That’s according to Malwarebytes, which noted that “We...

Segway store compromised with Magecart skimmer

In the early 2000s, the Segway company released a personal transporter that would become iconic. The Segway Human Transporter was quickly sold on Amazon and featured in a number of movies. Since 2015, Segway has been a subsidiary of Chinese-based company Ninebot and sells electric scooters under...

The Segway miniPRO balance of the car vulnerability research-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

Segway miniPRO Electric balance car presence of a critical security vulnerability, a malicious attacker could exploit the vulnerability may completely control the balance of the car. IOActive latest study found that Segway miniPRO Electric balance of the car in the presence of a critical security...

Hacking a Segway

The Segway has a mobile app. It is hackable: While analyzing the communication between the app and the Segway scooter itself, Kilbride noticed that a user PIN number meant to protect the Bluetooth communication from unauthorized access wasn't being used for authentication at every level of the...

Hackers Could Easily Take Remote Control of Your Segway Hoverboards

If you are hoverboard rider, you should be concerned about yourself. Thomas Kilbride, a security researcher from security firm IOActive, have discovered several critical vulnerabilities in Segway Ninebot miniPRO that could be exploited by hackers to remotely take "full control" over the hoverboar...