It was recently revealed that a security loophole within Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations.
A bug allowed hackers to install a backdoor account on a Google Home smart speaker device and use it via remote control to eavesdrop on unsuspecting owners by accessing its microphone feed, reported Bleeping Computer.
Security researcher Matt Kunze was recently rewarded a total of $107,500 by Google for discovering the security issue in January 2021, while experimenting with his own Google Home mini-speaker.
Kunze notified Google in March 2021 and later published the technical details about his findings, along with a potential attack scenario, which explained how the flaw could be exploited by an outside actor….