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Billions of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices vulnerable to password and data theft attacks

A new research paper has been published revealing that an attacker can extract passwords and manipulate web traffic on a Wi-Fi chip by targeting the Bluetooth component of mobile devices featuring multiple wireless technologies.

Smartphones, tablets and other modern mobile devices feature Systems on a Chip (SoC) that contain separate Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and LTE components each with their own dedicated security implication. However, these components often share many of the same resources like a device’s antenna or wireless spectrum.

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