https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/07/car-alarms-flaw-hijack/
By Zack Whittaker
TechCrunch
March 7, 2019
Two popular car alarm systems have fixed security vulnerabilities that allowed
researchers to remotely track, hijack and take control of vehicles with the
alarms installed.
The systems, built by Russian alarm maker Pandora and California-based Viper
(or Clifford in the U.K.), were vulnerable to an easily manipulated server-side
API, according to researchers at Pen Test Partners, a U.K. cybersecurity
company. In their findings, posted Friday, the API could be abused to take
control of an alarm system’s user account — and their vehicle.
It’s because the vulnerable alarm systems could be tricked into resetting an
account password because the API was failing to check if it was an authorized
request, allowing the researchers to log in.
Although the researchers bought alarms to test, they said “anyone” could create
a user account to access any genuine account or extract all the companies’ user
data.
The researchers said some three million cars globally were vulnerable to the
flaws (since fixed).
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