{
 "public_id": "AIR-2024-0031",
 "incident_id": "2024-05-ecovacs-deebot-x2-remote-takeover-harassment",
 "date_disclosed": "2024-08-10",
 "date_occurred": "2024-05",
 "title": "Attackers took remote control of Ecovacs Deebot X2 robot vacuums across US homes, watching camera feeds and shouting slurs through the speakers",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "computer_use_agent",
 "initial_vector": "authentication_bypass_bluetooth_and_cloud",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "camera_access",
  "microphone_and_speaker",
  "remote_drive_control",
  "home_mapping"
 ],
 "target_product": "Ecovacs Deebot X2",
 "target_vendor": "Ecovacs",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "privacy_violation",
  "harassment",
  "information_disclosure"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "robot vacuums in multiple US cities within days; researchers said the underlying flaws remained after the vendor's fix",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "embodied_agent",
   "in_home_surveillance",
   "weak_pin",
   "vendor_fix_disputed",
   "physical_world"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "4-digit PIN over Bluetooth; cloud account controls",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Ecovacs claimed a fix; DEF CON researchers reported residual exposure",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://boingboing.net/2024/10/11/robot-vacuums-yell-obscenities-at-owners-after-hackers-take-control.html",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/842"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Named victim Daniel Swenson (Minnesota) watched a stranger drive the device and access its live camera. Disclosed by Dennis Giese and Braelynn at DEF CON 32; ABC News Australia independently reproduced the takeover. An embodied agent with cameras, microphones and a floorplan of your house is a surveillance implant once its authentication fails. AI Incident Database incident 842.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy",
  "product_misuse"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Toxicity & Hate Speech",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Harassment & Radicalization"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "not_ai",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "Bluetooth/cloud authentication bypass in a device merely marketed as smart",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "authentication_bypass_bluetooth_and_cloud",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   842
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "bias_and_toxicity",
 "eai_domain": "agent_output_quality",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "sensitive_data_exposure"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Toxicity & Hate Speech",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_reason": "out of scope: not_ai: no ASI mechanism describes the failure",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}