I’m up on Cybernews, looking to see what other types of news might be of interest.
This car story is definitely of interest because Kim Komando has talked about some similar stuff too.
The first paragraph says:
FlipperZero has been described as a “digital Swiss knife.” Thieves are increasingly targeting keyless cars by exploiting entry system vulnerabilities.
This must be something new, as I don’t remember hearing about this before.
A journalist had their car stolen right from their driveway. Here are two paragraphs.
“My car was stolen from my driveway last night,” wrote tech journalist Eleanor Dallaway in an X post on February 6th.
“I still have both keys (they were stored safely a long way from the car), no smashed glass. The alarm didn’t go off (we were sleeping with the window open above & heard nothing),” adds Dallaway.
This could be concerning because your keys could be in your home and it could be stolen from right in front of you. If I remember correctly, Kim and others have said to put your keys in tinfoil or something else.
I know who Rick is who is talked about in this story. That paragraph says:
Rik Ferguson, a cybersecurity researcher and a Special Advisor to Europol’s cybercrime unit, responded to Dallaway’s tweet, saying he suspects that FlipperZero could have been used to steal her Mercedes.
Apparently, this is a device.
FlipperZero, a small device that started out as a Kickstarter project, can read, record, and manipulate over-the-air signals such as radio frequency (RF), near-field communication (NFC), infrared, and radio-frequency identification (RFID).
To read more about this and other stuff including the “Steel a car challenge” which is talked about, FlipperZero used to steal a Mercedes, X users suspect is the article.