A Japanese hotel chain that uses robots in lieu of human staff is wrestling with bedside bots that researchers hacked to view video footage from guest rooms. The hotel chain s parent, HIS Group, owns 10 locations throughout Japan that leverage robots with facial recognition capability for check in and in-room concierge services. The bug exists thanks to unsigned code that opens up access to a near field communication (NFC) tag inside the robot. An attacker would need to tap an NFC tag to the back of the [robot] head with any URL which breaks out of the jail ; go to settings, allow untrusted apps; use browser to install streaming audio/video app of choice; set to autorun; reboot; watch stream remote whenever you want
Source: https://threatpost.com/bedside-hotel-robot-hacked-video/149491/