IoT security company Armis Labs has exposed a major threat endangering Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux devices.<\/p>\n
Named “BlueBorne”<\/strong><\/a>, the attack is spread through Bluetooth and does not require the targeted device to be paired with the attacker’s device.<\/p>\n Once the hacker has used BlueBorne to access a target device, they can take complete control and conduct malicious activities.<\/p>\n “The BlueBorne attack vector can potentially affect all devices with Bluetooth capabilities, estimated at over 8.2 billion devices today,” said Armis Labs.<\/p>\n Google and Microsoft are rolling out patches to secure devices against the vulnerability, while iOS 10 is already protected against the attack.<\/p>\n “If you are concerned that your device may not be patched, we recommend disabling Bluetooth and minimizing its use until you can confirm a patch is issued and installed on your device.”<\/p>\n Armis Labs has exposed a major threat endangering Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":160024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[45999,1027,461,463],"class_list":["post-228909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-armis-labs","tag-bluetooth","tag-hacking","tag-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228949,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228909\/revisions\/228949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Crypto-mining botnets have returned<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"