Robot vacuum cleaners from China suddenly started chasing their owners and swearing at them

Probably, this was done by criminals who discovered a vulnerability in the security system of vacuum cleaners and connected to them remotely.< /p>

Robot vacuum cleaners of the Chinese brand Ecovacs started harassing owners and their pets, using obscene language and shouting racist insults. This was encountered at once in several US cities,  writes ABC News.

Probably, this was done by criminals who discovered a vulnerability in the security system of vacuum cleaners and connected to them remotely. Those have a microphone and a camera, so people could be monitored.

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One user said he was watching TV when his robot vacuum cleaner suddenly started making strange noises, similar to an intermittent radio signal. In the mobile app, he noticed that someone had accessed the vacuum cleaner's camera and remote control functions. The man changed the password and rebooted it. But after some time, the vacuum cleaner started moving again, and insulting shouts rang out from its speaker.

As it turned out, rebooting and changing the password did not help. The robots fell silent only after a complete shutdown or reset to factory settings without connecting to the Internet.

Ecovacs is already aware of the problems, the company promises to release a security “patch” in the near future. They also emphasized that the vulnerability exploited by hackers is present only in Deebot X2 models.