Now we have a first peek at the ESP32-C6; a brand new RISC-V based design with the hottest Wi-Fi standard on the block ... to the Bluetooth Low Energy (4.X and 5.X) concept of a connection ...

"Tarlogic Security has detected a backdoor in the ESP32, a microcontroller that enables WiFi and Bluetooth connection and is present in millions of mass-market IoT devices," reads a Tarlogic ...

To clarify, the ESP32 ... wires connect the microcontroller to the GBA’s Link Cable connector, which is enough to transfer a small ROM over to the system and ferry user input to the Bluetooth ...

The cheap WLAN and Bluetooth chips from the manufacturer Espressif, ESP32, contain undocumented ... be other Bluetooth remote stations and thus connect to smartphones, for example.