Hey there, this is a hot one. You've probably heard of Kia Boys, young men who steal cars. Well soon they might have a new piece of tech that lets them steal Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, and many other vehicles: a Flipper Zero running custom tools. There has been some misguided hype around how the Flipper Zero might be used for this. But now it's happening. I spoke to a hacker who made the new tool and is selling it. Most importantly, the tech is starting to leak out and soon could be in the hands of many more thieves. “Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person I spoke to said. There's a ton in this article, read below.
A man holds an orange and white device in his hand, about the size of his palm, with an antenna sticking out. He enters some commands with the built-in buttons, then walks over to a nearby car. At first, its doors are locked, and the man tugs on one of them unsuccessfully. He then pushes a button on the gadget in his hand, and the door now unlocks.
The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to....
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