The Most Common Types of Bluetooth Attacks

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The Most Common Types of Bluetooth Attacks

1. BlueSmacking
If you know DoS attack, then you know it. In Denial of Service attack, your device or server receives too many data packets or oversized data-packets than it is designed to handle.
Your device or server will get overwhelmed and be closed down. Simple...
BlueSmacking is nothing but a DoS attack on your Bluetooth enabled device. This attack basically uses the L2CAP layer of Bluetooth's networking stack to send a really oversized data packet.

2. BlueJacking
BlueJacking happens when one Bluetooth device hijacks another with spam advertising. Bluetooth usually has a broadcasting range of 10-meters or about 30-feet. So your BlueJacking attacker would probably be in the same room as you. Or perhaps an attacker could leave a BlueJacking device on the street and target your phone while you walk past it. This attack is more of an annoyance than an attack.
But these attacks may get serious when phone messages planted are a means of phishing attacks. Phishing is when an attacker pretends to be a trusted entity like your bank, phone company, or Amazon to entice you into clicking on a link or entering your sensitive information.
A message sent by BlueJacking could contain a hyperlink to a website that has malware, or a website that grabs sensitive information from its victim.

3. BlueSnarfing
It's similar to BlueJacking in some ways, but much more dangerous. You see, a BlueJacking attack just sends data, whereas a BlueSnarfing attack can take your data. Your data that is dangerous in the hands of cyber attackers, such as your text messages, emails, photos, Whatsapp chats, and other unique identifying information that your phone or laptop uses with your cellular provider or ISP.
Things really get serious when an attacker can receive enough information about your phone or laptop, because it will allow them to conduct more harmful cyber attacks.

4. BlueBugging
When hackers in the wild realized that how easy BlueJacking and BlueSnarfing can be, they eventually went ahead and wrote an exploit, now known as BlueBugging. They were able to use BlueTooth to establish a BACKDOOR on a victim's phone or laptop. And you would know that these Backdoors are very dangerous because they can give a malicious outsider inside access to your device and sensitive information. They can spy on you 24x7. They may even be able to pretend to be you on social media or your online banking!

5. Blueborne
Blueborne is perhaps the most dangerous attack. It refers to an attack vector that invades your devices via Bluetooth. It can recognize the vulnerabilities in your device and use them against you. What makes Blueborne so dangerous is the fact that this method does not require the two devices to be paired together. Attackers can even target the devices that are not set in 'visible' mode.
New machine learning tools have helped them learn to penetrate security more easily than ever. They are then able to take complete control over your devices and access any data stored within. Hackers often use the devices that they control to execute larger attacks.
The order of magnitude can be stunning: The BlueBorne flaw that was first disclosed in September 2017, and it impacted 5 billion PCs, phones, and IoT units.
Read it again, 5-Billion devices!!!!