2023-05-03 20:04:57
Criminals use tiny devices hidden inside these devices to interact with the vehicle’s control system.
Before the advent of the iPhone in 2007, Nokia was the undisputed king of telephony. The company, then Finnish, manufactured the best and most widely used devices, among which stood out the Nokia 3310. This model would go down in history for its practicality and resistance, but these are not the attributes that currently interest its applicants: car thieves, who are using them in the United States to steal using a simple USB cable.
This phenomenon has been going on for months, but it wasn’t until the publication of a video about it on the YouTube channel ‘Motherboard’ that the alarms went off. The document, which lasts just a few seconds, shows how easy it is to start a car with the help of this device, which in the second-hand market is reaching prices between 2,500 and 18.000 euros.
Actually, the Nokia 3310 is nothing more than the casing. Criminals use tiny devices that they usually hide in these devices to interact with the vehicle’s control system. The ‘disguise’ of this phone model is, therefore, the one that has become most popular, but there are also ones in the form of a bluetooth speaker or other mobile models.
Once the thieves have accessed the necessary cables, the US media ‘Vice’ explains that they can activate by sending fake messages car smart key. The underlying problem, they point out, is that the vehicles trust these messages without verifying them, since they appear to come from the key receiver.
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