{"id":9883,"date":"2026-01-15T05:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/hacking-wheelchairs-over-bluetooth-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:03:47","slug":"hacking-wheelchairs-over-bluetooth-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/hacking-wheelchairs-over-bluetooth-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/researchers-expose-whill-wheelchair-safety-risks-via-remote-hacking\/\">demonstrated<\/a> remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/ics-medical-advisories\/icsma-25-364-01\">advisory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections, allowing an attacker who is in Bluetooth range of the targeted device to pair with it. The attacker could then control the wheelchair\u2019s movements, override speed restrictions, and manipulate configuration profiles, all without requiring credentials or user interaction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/01\/hacking-wheelchairs-over-bluetooth.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacking Wheelchairs over Bluetooth Researchers have demonstrated remotely controlling a wheelchair over Bluetooth. CISA has issued an advisory. CISA said the WHILL wheelchairs did not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections, allowing an attacker who is in Bluetooth range of the targeted device to pair with it. The attacker could then control the wheelchair\u2019s movements, override [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2240,57,97,1970,1575,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bluetooth","category-bruce-schneier","category-hacking","category-internet-of-things","category-transportation","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}