How Phone-as-Key, Remote Start Apps Can Make Your Car Easier to Steal

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How Phone-as-Key, Remote Start Apps Can Make Your Car Easier to Steal
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You can now use your phone to access and drive your car—but so can hackers.

in order to exploit a modern connected vehicle, and much of that knowledge can be found freely online. The applications to make your car unlock its doors from your phone works off of the same programming your phone does for things like locating itself, remotely unlocking your phone from its lock screen, and even accessing the cameras. This can all use a middleman website the user never sees or ever directly interacts with.

Just by having that surface level access, vehicles could be tracked and even be susceptible to remote access to unlock doors, start the engine, or. Beyond that, hackers could have access to a user's private information and change digital ownership of the vehicle within the app. All they would need to have is the VIN and access to the connected app website that controls the vehicle.

In other words, the characters in that Mr. Robot episode wouldn't even need those RF or CANBUS access tools to drive the car away if its owner connected it to their phone ."Someone could have exploited the issues that we reported to remotely locate a vehicle, remotely unlock it, then drive it away via generating a phone connected keyfob," said Curry,"Thieves can absolutely take advantage of vulnerabilities like this to steal cars.

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