business insider 'Inception attacks' on Meta VR headsets can trap users in a fake VR environment, researchers found

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"While the user thinks they are interacting normally with different VR applications, they are in fact interacting within a simulated world, where everything they see and hear has been intercepted, relayed, and possibly altered by the attacker," the researchers wrote in the study.

Researchers created cloned versions of the Meta Quest Browser and VRChat app. Once the replica browser app was running, the researchers were able to spy on the users as they logged into sensitive accounts, like their bank or email.

 

With the built in Camera they can probably even see in your house

 

Meta VR Headsets Can Trap Users in Fake Environment: Study

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The attack involves trapping the Meta Quest user in a malicious VR application that mimics the original...