Of course, there's malware involved:
Service members across the military have reported receiving smartwatches unsolicited in the mail. These smartwatches, when used, have auto-connected to Wi-Fi and began connecting to cell phones unprompted, gaining access to a myriad of user data.
These smartwatches may also contain malware that would grant the sender access to saved data to include banking information, contacts, and account information such as usernames and passwords.Malware may be present which accesses both voice and cameras, enabling actors access to conversations and accounts tied to the smartwatches.
These products may also be used for Brushing. This is the practice of sending products, often counterfeit, unsolicited to seemingly random individuals via mail in order to allow companies to write positive reviews in the receiver's name allowing them to compete with established products.
What to do if you receive one of these devices:
- DO NOT turn the device on.
- Report it to your local counterintelligence, security manager, or through our Submit a Tip - Report a Crime reporting portal.
Freebies like this are the equivalent of "open your mouth and close your eyes." Let's be careful out there.
9 comments:
Is this just evil people sending these out or Commie pinko enemies of the state?
Sadly, it's not just watches. It's anything that can wifi connect and collects information. Tablets, computers (Lenovo has been a serious security risk for a long time,) phones, heart monitors, pacemakers, anything Internet-of-Things made with Chinese components.
Fitbits, etc... sigh
Why didn't we get freebies like this in the 80s and 90s? :)
It's like the old "how to break security of a network at work." I knew a guy who was a security expert who charged bookoo bucks to harden company networks. He'd bet the IT security guy that he'd be inside the firewall within an hour. Bet taken, the guy would go to the company parking lot and drop a thumb drive with innocuous labeling like "Timmy's bday" somewhere obvious. Sure enough someone would pick it up and insert it into their work computer. Boom, in like Flynn. may be less likely all these years - decades - later, buuuut, who knows?
Anything free is worth the price. I've often thought of getting several friends in various corners of the country and mailing something like that which is reporting to some computer somewhere and mailing the damned thing back and forth around just for giggles.
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One wonders if this is part of the search for "White Supremacists". I don't think we can just assume it's a foreign enemy.
Fitbit tracks exposed a base in Iraq years ago...
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