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gdog05@gdog05@lemmy.world

AI bot hacking/scraping Home Assistant

I pay for the Nabu Casa subscription for remote access to Home Assistant. Mostly as a way to give them money for a great service, but it’s convenient and felt pretty secure. It should be the only remote way into Home Assistant. About an hour ago I got a login attempt notice that an IP was trying to access API/config. The IP is in some bad IP databases. What I found interesting was that the log shows an AI bot. A Google Gemini bot specifically. Makes me worry that AI is going to make yet another aspect of life frustrating and unfun.

InEnduringGrowStrong@InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨4am@lemmy.zip⁩

and let’s hope that the login page doesn’t have any vulnerabilities…

Home assistant also supports mTLS.
home assistant is something you’d likely ever want to allow from a handful of trusted devices, so deploying a client certificate on them can make sense.
This way a non-onboarded device doesn’t even get to the html part, it’s denied upstream by a reverse proxy before HA is involved.