This surveillance van can hack your phone from 500 meters away Uses at least two unknown man-in-the-middle techniques, four types of malware, and a number of zero-day exploits June 26, 2018 https://www.techspot.com/news/75251-surveillance-van-can-hack-phone-500-meters-away.html
Charming. Basically a bunch of WiFi attacks. I wonder how it does against hardened Linux. Especially if you use a separate WiFi radio, with a decent pfSense router/firewall isolating it from the computer. You can implement all that on small portable hardware.
I guess if I was a serious customer they might supply more info, because when they say the van "Uses at least two unknown man-in-the-middle techniques, four types of malware, and a number of zero-day exploits" they don't really say a lot. Bit more precise info in the report at Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...g-truck-sold-by-israeli-surveillance-company/
This just confirms the prudent assumption that it's dangerous to connect to random radio stuff. All you can really trust are wired connections to resources that you understand and configure. For anything else, you gotta' use dedicated (or even disposable) devices. It's like malware testing, no?
Surveillance firm pays $1 million fine after 'spy van' scandal November 13, 2021 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...rm-pays-1-million-fine-after-spy-van-scandal/