Smart Home

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a documentation-only smart-home guide with no hidden code, but users should be careful before following reset, camera, lock, alarm, or network-change advice.

Safe to install as a reference guide. Before applying its advice, confirm ownership and permission, document current device settings, preserve any needed recordings or evidence, check lease and recording-law constraints for cameras or doorbells, and keep physical/manual fallbacks for locks, hubs, alarms, and water controls.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

Confidence: 93% confidence
Finding: The skill instructs users to factory reset devices and clear recordings/history, but it does not clearly warn that these actions are irreversible and may permanently erase settings, automation configurations, account bindings, and stored video/event data. In a smart-home takeover scenario, resets may be appropriate, but without explicit data-loss warnings and backup guidance, users can unintentionally destroy evidence, lose access configurations, or disrupt critical home functions.

VirusTotal

65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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