A new report released by Denis Cillianen, a researcher at Embedi Security, details a new WiFi hole that could affect more than 6200 million devices, including keyboards, mobile phones, computers, routers, and more.
The report reveals that this vulnerability is attacking ThreadX, a real-time operating system that is used as a firmware for millions of devices at present. But the big problem is that this security vulnerability still has no solution, although the various affected companies are already working to find a solution.
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To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker must send the infected packet over Wi-Fi only to any device that contains this chip, and then wait until malicious code starts, control the device or steal the information.

The big problem is that this vulnerability can be implemented in a general way, which means it can affect all devices with ThreadX-based firmware, which we estimated to be more than 6,200 million worldwide.

The big problem is that the attack is not noticed by users, making it more difficult to determine whether the device has been attacked or not. "Denis Silianin" stated that manufacturers are already working to solve the problem.