MEDIA ALERT: BlueBorne Attack Could Be the Most Dangerous Security Flaw to Date
Announcement posted by Threat Intelligence 14 Sep 2017
Threat Intelligence Expert Provides Insights on the potential impact of the BlueBorne attack and what organisations should do to protect themselves
What:
The BlueBorne attack was released by Armis Labs and is considered to be one of the most dangerous attack vectors that has been released potentially ever, with an estimated 8 billion devices that could be affected.
BlueBorne has the capability to propagate itself over the air using Bluetooth. By simply being physically close to an infected device, it can infect a range of major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS prior to iOS 10. Since many IoT devices run Linux, this includes cameras, TVs, watches, cars, home automation systems, and even medical appliances.
Why:
This attack is achieved by using eight newly discovered security flaws related to Bluetooth within these operating systems and attackers can compromise your devices by simply walking past you on the street.
If this attack was weaponised to self-propagate, then anyone you walked past would become infected, and in turn anyone they walked past would become infected, and so on. This is comparable to a highly-infectious human virus that spreads over the air at an exponential rate, which gives you an idea of how quickly a BlueBorne attack could spread.
Depending upon the intention of the attacker, this could lead to major ransomware infections across mobile and desktop operating systems, identity theft through access to desktop and mobile phone apps, emails and SMS, and major outages to businesses and health care systems. This introduces the risk of health and safety impacts similar to that experienced by the WannaCry attacks on the UK health system.
Who:
IT Security expert Ty Miller, Founder and Managing Director of Threat Intelligence is available for interviews and in-depth information about what the state of the BlueBorne threat is right now – and what consumers and organisations should do to protect themselves.
Among the topics Ty can discuss:
Ty is available for phone interviews to provide in-depth background and analysis on the potential threats.
Contact:
To arrange interviews with Ty Miller from Threat Intelligence on this or any other IT security-related topics, please contact:
TY MILLER CATHRYN VAN DER WALT
0409 713 735 0402 327 633
ty.miller@threatintelligence.com cathryn@12worlds.com
The BlueBorne attack was released by Armis Labs and is considered to be one of the most dangerous attack vectors that has been released potentially ever, with an estimated 8 billion devices that could be affected.
BlueBorne has the capability to propagate itself over the air using Bluetooth. By simply being physically close to an infected device, it can infect a range of major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS prior to iOS 10. Since many IoT devices run Linux, this includes cameras, TVs, watches, cars, home automation systems, and even medical appliances.
Why:
This attack is achieved by using eight newly discovered security flaws related to Bluetooth within these operating systems and attackers can compromise your devices by simply walking past you on the street.
If this attack was weaponised to self-propagate, then anyone you walked past would become infected, and in turn anyone they walked past would become infected, and so on. This is comparable to a highly-infectious human virus that spreads over the air at an exponential rate, which gives you an idea of how quickly a BlueBorne attack could spread.
Depending upon the intention of the attacker, this could lead to major ransomware infections across mobile and desktop operating systems, identity theft through access to desktop and mobile phone apps, emails and SMS, and major outages to businesses and health care systems. This introduces the risk of health and safety impacts similar to that experienced by the WannaCry attacks on the UK health system.
Who:
IT Security expert Ty Miller, Founder and Managing Director of Threat Intelligence is available for interviews and in-depth information about what the state of the BlueBorne threat is right now – and what consumers and organisations should do to protect themselves.
Among the topics Ty can discuss:
- Ease of exploitation of the BlueBorne vulnerabilities
- New attacks likely to be seen– ransomware, identity theft, mobile device breaches, home and corporate device breaches, IoT device breaches, organisational impacts
- Timeframe for potential breaches
Ty is available for phone interviews to provide in-depth background and analysis on the potential threats.
Contact:
To arrange interviews with Ty Miller from Threat Intelligence on this or any other IT security-related topics, please contact:
TY MILLER CATHRYN VAN DER WALT
0409 713 735 0402 327 633
ty.miller@threatintelligence.com cathryn@12worlds.com