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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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It looks like a bluetooth speaker or an old Nokia cellphone. But that’s a disguise. Inside these small devices is everything car thieves need to break into your vehicle. There are telegram channels now where, for a few thousand dollars, you can buy a device that will break into a car in seconds.
Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox is here on Cyber this week to walk us through it.
Stories discussed in this episode:
The Car Thieves Using Tech Disguised Inside Old Nokia Phones and Bluetooth Speakers
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0:00.0 | Tannenes got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.2 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.6 | I know this. |
0:14.6 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:16.8 | It tells her everything. |
0:18.6 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.3 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
0:25.0 | Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galt, and this is cyber. |
0:30.3 | It looks like a Bluetooth speaker or an old Nokia cell phone, but that's a disguise. |
0:35.2 | Inside these small devices is everything car thieves need to break into your |
0:39.5 | vehicle. There are telegram channels now where, for a few thousand dollars, you can buy a device |
0:44.3 | that will break into a car in seconds. Here to walk us through this and show us what's going on |
0:50.7 | is motherboard reporter Joseph Cox. J.C., how are you doing today? |
0:56.4 | All good. |
0:56.9 | Thank you again for having me. |
0:58.2 | All right. |
0:59.7 | So let's start with a video. |
1:02.2 | I'm going to show the people that are watching the live stream so they can kind of see what we're talking about here. |
1:07.2 | Briefly for those that are not watching at home, but are listening after the fact, can you |
1:12.6 | kind of break down what it is we are about to see? Yeah, sure. So this is going to be somebody who |
1:18.4 | is selling some car stealing technology, which is hidden in like the old case of a Nokia 3310, I think it is, you know, the classic |
1:29.8 | Nokia phone. And what they're doing is they're pushing the button and it says, look, the engine's not |
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