Android Phones at Risk of BlueRepli Bluetooth Attack

guest · Aug 6, 2020

Android Phones at Risk of BlueRepli Bluetooth Attack
August 6, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/bhusa-android-risk-bluetooth/

At the Black Hat USA 2020 virtual event on August 5, a new attack was added to the list of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, with the public disclosure of BlueRepli.

Security researchers Sourcell Xu and Xin Xin described the BlueRepli attack as a way to bypass Bluetooth authentication on Android phones, without detection. In a series of recorded demos, the researchers demonstrated how, with limited or no user interaction, they were able to abuse Bluetooth to steal a target device’s phone book as well as all of the SMS text messages it had received.

For reasons, not fully shared by the researchers, the BlueRepli attack does currently not work on Apple iOS devices.
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At the core of the BlueRepli attack is an abuse of what are known as Bluetooth Profiles.
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reasonablePrivacy · Aug 7, 2020

Bluetooth probably should be replaced by something completely new designed with security in mind...

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