Security News 2 Billion Bluetooth Devices Remain Exposed to Airborne Attack Vulnerabilities

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One year after Armis disclosed 'BlueBorne,' a large number of Android, Linux, and iOS devices remain unpatched.

One year after security vendor Armis disclosed a set of nine exploitable vulnerabilities in Bluetooth, some 2 billion devices — including hundreds of millions of Android and iOS smartphones — remain exposed to the threat.

Armis disclosed the vulnerabilities — collectively dubbed "BlueBorne" — last September, describing them as an attack vector for adversaries to take complete control of Bluetooth devices. At the time, the company estimated some 5 billion Bluetooth-enabled products, including laptops, phones, smartwatches, and TVs, were impacted.

Nearly half of the still-vulnerable devices, 995 million, are Android devices running either the Marshmallow or even older Lollipop versions of the operating system. Another 768 million are running either unpatched or unpatchable versions of Linux, 200 million are running various versions of Windows, and 50 million are iOS devices, the company said in a report Thursday.