Researchers found a way to hack those ubiquitous electric scooters
You can add another bullet point to the long list of things that drive people nuts about the electric scooter craze in America: the scooters can be hacked. A researcher with San Francisco-based Zimperium discovered a way to manipulate Xiaomi M365 scooter through a Bluetooth connection. Users can access their scooter via an app that connects to the scooter, as long as users authenticate with a password. However Zimperium researcher Rani Idan determined the password fails to completely protect users. “During our research, we determined the password is not being used properly as part of the authentication process with the scooter and that all commands can be executed without the password,” Idan wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “The password is only validated on the application side, but the scooter itself doesn’t keep track of the authentication state.” From there, Idan wrote an app for his mobile device that allowed him to […]
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