The newly discovered exploits are categorized as Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses, or BLUFFS for short. A researcher at EURECOM published a paper on them detailing how an ...

But like anything, it can be misused. "If they want to do a Bluetooth attack they are going to try to find all of those ...

For users who have updated to iOS 17, the attack can be blocked by turning the iPhone's Bluetooth off in the Settings app—toggling Bluetooth in the Control Centre panel is insufficient.

As we first reported in yesterday’s weekly security post, researchers at EURECOM have revealed the details (PDF, references) of a new man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on Bluetooth 4.2 through 5.4 ...