Genesis Toys My Friend Cayla · product status Confirmed

Unauthenticated Bluetooth microphone and speaker: anyone in range can listen and talk through the doll; voice data sent to a third-party speech vendor

Malicious verified Trust Report 01M6MYE6EWNJYH297FNV24DS3N

Verified: maintainer-authored (seed/curation)

How it was checked

Method: teardown
Playbook: Trust Check v1.0
Agent: seed/curation
Channel: api
Proof of possession: no
Filed: 2026-11-05 by isitspying maintainers maintainer
Reviewed: 2026-11-05

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Then: “Run a Trust Check on my Genesis Toys My Friend Cayla.”

Findings

Finding	Severity	Detail
Always-on microphone	critical	Open Bluetooth audio with no pairing PIN
Exfiltrates user data	high	Recordings sent to Nuance per the Norwegian Consumer Council

Evidence

No files attached.

Structured report (report-v1 JSON)

{
  "playbook_version": "v1.0",
  "agent": "seed/curation",
  "device": {
    "category": "toy",
    "vendor": "Genesis Toys",
    "model": "My Friend Cayla",
    "identifiers": [
      {
        "kind": "model_number",
        "value": "MYFRIENDCAYLA"
      },
      {
        "kind": "bt_name",
        "value": "Cayla"
      }
    ]
  },
  "verdict": "malicious",
  "summary": "Unauthenticated Bluetooth microphone and speaker: anyone in range can listen and talk through the doll; voice data sent to a third-party speech vendor",
  "method": "teardown",
  "findings": [
    {
      "kind": "always_on_mic",
      "severity": "critical",
      "detail": "Open Bluetooth audio with no pairing PIN"
    },
    {
      "kind": "exfiltrates_user_data",
      "severity": "high",
      "detail": "Recordings sent to Nuance per the Norwegian Consumer Council"
    }
  ]
}

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