![February report from researcher found Chinese KVM had undocumented microphone and communicated with China-based servers, but many of the security issues are now addressed [Updated]](https://i1.wp.com/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/yPQ68jSZjWofH2ejud8y5G-1920-80.png?w=1920&resize=1920,0&ssl=1 "February report from researcher found Chinese KVM had undocumented microphone and communicated with China-based servers, but many of the security issues are now addressed [Updated]")
Edit 12/8/2025 5:25 pm PT: Adjusted article to reflect that the report was published in February.
In February, a Slovenian data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/security”>security researcher data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>published an analysis of Sipeed’s NanoKVM that raised far-reaching concerns about the €30-€60 ($35-70) remote management device. Alarmingly, the researcher’s teardown showed the device shipped with a catalogue of security failures and an undocumented microphone that could be activated over SSH. After reporting the issues, many of those problems have been…
