The hidden threat of smart home privacy leakage comes from the router

In our daily life, we can use smartphones to control the switches and controls of smart home devices at home. With a click, you can remotely control the light switch; with a click, you can see the real-time image of your home through the smart camera; with a click, the robot vacuum cleaner has finished cleaning and is waiting for you to come home... Smart home devices have been completely integrated into our lives. Most of these devices are connected to wireless routers via wifi. Once the wireless router is attacked, these smart home devices will also be controlled by hackers.

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Smart home devices are increasingly being used in homes

If these devices are attacked, people's lives will be seriously disturbed, and even normal life will not be able to proceed. Hackers will steal our personal privacy and control these smart devices in our homes, which is very troublesome. Many hackers are currently studying how to remotely attack the wireless routers in users' homes, infect and control the users' wireless routers, and thus control the users' mobile devices and smart home devices. In this way, our daily lives cannot proceed normally.

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Wireless routers become the hub of smart homes

These smart devices do not provide firewall functions, and users think that using the firewall of the wireless router is enough. However, malware on smartphones can easily break through the firewall of wireless routers. Researchers say that over-reliance on home wireless routers to protect smart devices is extremely dangerous. Users often download malware without knowing it, which will contaminate the home network and spread to other devices.

Ordinary users cannot even find out that their devices are contaminated and are still using them normally. However, attackers have already seen the user's personal information and even privacy clearly. Attackers can even modify the firewall settings of wireless routers through malware and reset the user's wireless router. Opening the remote control port of the wireless router allows attackers to access the wireless router in the user's home from the outside. Wireless routers exposed to the Internet are undoubtedly a major security risk for home smart devices.