Headphone Hijacking

August 15, 2025

Kutipan dari twitter tentang masalah keamanan di headphone wireless. Salah satu masalah wireless adalah keamanan data. Kalau mau 100% aman memang lebih baik pakai headphone kabel saja.

Just saw a sick live demo of wireless headphone hijacking that allows the attacker to perform the following without ever pairing the device. All the attacker has to do is be in range.

• read/write arbitrary bytes to device
• read headphones information
• dump firmware info
• extract paired devices information (name, link key, MAC address)

and since you can extract the above information, the attacker can then impersonate as the device and perform actions like