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INSANE: Your lightbulbs can be hacked to breach your wi fi network - The Real Truth

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TP-Link’s popular smart lightbulb and its companion mobile app were found to be carrying multiple high-severity flaws which could allow hackers to gain access to the connected Wi-Fi network.

That, in turn, could allow threat actors to access other endpoints on the network, which could give them access to sensitive data, or allow them to deploy different malware and ransomware.

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