Smart garage door openers offer homeowners a convenient and quick way to upgrade their home, but as with all other smart home devices, hackers can get in. A vulnerability was discovered this week in Nexx's smart garage door openers, which showed that malicious actors could take remote control of your garage.
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While conducting research, Sam Sabetan discovered a significant security flaw in Nexx garage door openers, alarms, and smart plugs that could be exploited by malicious actors. Hackers are able to gain access to the products and manipulate them—for example, control a connected garage door. This poses a serious risk of unauthorized access to someone’s home.
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This weak point allows these goods to be managed remotely from anywhere on the planet, Sabetan told Motherboard.
The consequences of these vulnerabilities should be self-evident: third parties have the ability to take control and – if they are nearby – gain access to your garage. With alarms, this could also leave homes at further risk. For garage door controllers, devices can be identified using an email, device ID or first and last name.
To demonstrate the enormous potential of his invention, Sabetan uploaded a demonstration video, where he was able to operate not only his own device but also hundreds of others.
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In a post, Sabetan confirmed that Nexx was initially notified of the vulnerability in January of this year, but ignored the warnings. As a result, today’s public disclosure was necessitated by their lack of acknowledgement. Despite numerous customer complaints about the security vulnerabilities, Nexx continues to ignore them.
Information source: 9to5google.com
