This surveillance van can hack your phone from 500 meters away

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by guest, Jun 26, 2018.

  1. guest

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    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
     
  2. mirimir

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    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.
     
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  4. mirimir

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    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?
     
  5. guest

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    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/
     
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