The Robot Unitree Go1 dog hide a back door that gives remote access to the device

The Robot dogs They started a few years ago with the Boston Dynamics modelsalthough they have been popularly so popular that you can even find them in Aliexpress. One of these is the UNITREE GO1a robot dog from a Chinese company that according to Cyberinsider hides a surprise in your system. This Unitree GO1 has a Preinstalled Remote Access Doorand that does not appear in any document, that allows access and control to the device.

This discovery has been achieved by Two cybersecurity specialists performing reverse engineering in your firmware. This remote access door would give power option control this robot remotelyand even access your sensors and cameras To use them and see through them, you can also access through SSH using the predetermined credentials of the Raspberry Pi. The connection of this remote bridge is made with Cloudsaila remote access platform also China of the company Zhexi Technology.

These researchers detected More than 1,900 connections to the Cloudsail networkmany from China, but others could be determined with Origin in academic and corporate networks from abroad. Among these, the MIT, Princeton or the University of WaterlooThey even detected connections via Starlink. This tunnel that gives access to the back door as soon as you start The Unitree Go1 robot, which seems totally integrated in the starting process, discarding a purification error.

As it is an undercover and not documented access door, this should be classified as rear door that offers a significant risk for safety. It is recommended that the holders of one of these robots Disable this service and renew passwords by default to prevent remote access, in addition to Check the records to detect unidentified connections to Cloudsail.