A team of researchers has proven that millions of devices around the world are at risk of cyber attacks and theft of personal information due to a vulnerability in Bluetooth technology.
In a report, the French magazine Le Point quoted the "Znet" website, which specializes in technology news, that researchers from Purdue University in the United States discovered a security hole in the Bluetooth wireless communication technology designed to exchange data between devices at short distances.
According to the researchers' findings, and due to a bug in the Bluetooth Low Energy Protocol (BLESA), which is designed to save battery power in devices when using Bluetooth, devices connected to this technology can be exposed to several electronic piracy attacks per day.
Billions of devices are at risk
The report states that what makes the vulnerability worse is that the bluetooth connection between two devices renews automatically when they diverge and then converge again within the distance that allows the connection, without requiring authentication from any user.
According to the report, this vulnerability in the bluetooth system makes billions of devices around the world vulnerable to cyber attacks that aim to tamper with the personal data exchanged between devices.
The report states that the developers of the operating systems affected by this vulnerability have not issued any comment yet, as the researchers confirm that this vulnerability affects devices that run on Android systems, "iOS" and "Linux", while not affecting devices. Running Windows system.