{"id":132567,"date":"2021-12-17T01:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/researchers-uncover-new-coexistence-attacks-on-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-chips"},"modified":"2021-12-17T01:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:23:37","slug":"researchers-uncover-new-coexistence-attacks-on-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/researchers-uncover-new-coexistence-attacks-on-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-chips","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover New Coexistence Attacks On Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-new-coexistence-attacks-on-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-chips.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new attack technique that makes it possible to leverage a device\u2019s Bluetooth component to directly extract network passwords and manipulate traffic on a Wi-Fi chip, putting billions of electronic devices at risk of stealthy attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The novel attacks work against the so-called \u201ccombo chips,\u201d which are specialized chips that are equipped to handle different types of radio wave-based wireless communications, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and LTE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe provide empirical evidence that coexistence, i.e., the coordination of cross-technology wireless transmissions, is an unexplored attack surface,\u201d a group of researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt\u2019s Secure Mobile Networking Lab and the University of Brescia said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2112.05719.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new attack technique that makes it possible to leverage a device\u2019s Bluetooth component to directly extract network passwords and manipulate traffic on a Wi-Fi chip, putting billions of electronic devices at risk of stealthy attacks. The novel attacks work against the so-called \u201ccombo chips,\u201d which are specialized chips that are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}