There's been a strange wave of cyberattacks in the U.S. and the targets have been robotic vacuum cleaners — Ecovacs Deebot X2 Omni robotic ones, specifically.
Over the last week, there have been multiple stories about owners of these getting surprised by the digital attacks. Someone gained control over these devices and started shouting obscenities at the owners according to the Australian outlet ABC News (not to be confused with the U.S. version).
An example was Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson, who had been watching TV. "It sounded like a broken-up radio signal or something," he told the news outlet. "You could hear snippets of maybe a voice."
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