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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
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A cheap children’s smartwatch was shown to be remotely controllable for location, audio, and video capture, exposing a broader class of GPS-enabled wearables to similar attacks.
The demonstration proves that inexpensive IoT trackers can be turned into covert surveillance tools without any user warning. Because the same backend platform powers dozens of brands, the flaw potentially affects millions of devices and raises urgent privacy and safety concerns for developers and operators of connected products.
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Even with a broken GPS module, the watch leaked nearby Wi-Fi identifiers that let an attacker triangulate the wearer’s exact position.
Remote commands allowed silent activation of the camera and microphone, delivering images and audio to the attacker without any on-device indication.
The cloud service handling the devices lacks authentication, meaning any party aware of a device’s ID can issue commands, a weakness shared across many brands and product categories.
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