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Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices. Exploitation of this backdoor would allow hostile actors to conduct impersonation attacks and permanently infect sensitive devices such as mobile phones, computers, smart locks or medical equipment by bypassing code audit controls.
Update: The ESP32 “backdoor” that wasn’t.
@Treczoks @Tea looks like a whole lot of nothing.
the description mentions that they are using the ESP32 as a tool using undocumented features when you are already able to program it.
They are not hacking the ESP32 from the outside.