A security researcher has won a $107,500 bug bounty after discovering a way in which hackers could install a backdoor on Google Home devices to seize control of their microphones, and secretly spy upon their owners’ conversations. Vulnerability hunter Matt Kunze initially reported the problem to Google in early 2021, after experiments with his own Google Home smart speaker noticed the ease with which it added new users via the Google Home app.

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