Your trusted online secretary at-home may not be as trustworthy as you think it is. Amazon's Alexa has recently been told as a new target for hackers' newest scheme. They will pose as Amazon personnel, email a link to the system, and have all the info that Alexa has in-store about you. Yup, hackers can do it.
Alexa warning: How to make sure you're not being hacked
Just like other devices, Amazon's Echo is also capable of being hacked by malicious threat actors.
Last year, Forbes reported that Amazon Alexa could even be hacked within 100 meters, using a laser. 'Light commands' is one of the most common hacking techniques made by actors.
The light can transmit the same signal coming from the microphones and used it to mimicked the voice with the laser beam.
"It's just the sort of vulnerability that designers, even those with great threat models, don't think about. It just goes to show that the threat can evolve, and so should your threat model," said Professor Alan Woodward, a security expert from the University of Surrey.
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Written by Jamie Pancho
