{"id":130359,"date":"2021-05-10T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=130359"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:43:39","slug":"to-the-delight-of-scammers-apple-airtag-has-already-been-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gadgets\/to-the-delight-of-scammers-apple-airtag-has-already-been-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"To the delight of scammers: Apple AirTag has already been hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple AirTag search beacon went on sale at the end of last month, and since then, users have been doing various experiments with this gadget.\u00a0However, the greatest interest is not associated with the fact that it can be embedded somewhere or discreetly planted for surveillance.\u00a0It turns out that AirTag can be hacked, as demonstrated by the German security researcher stacksmashing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On his Twitter, the expert wrote that he was able to reflash the beacon microcontroller, and this allowed changing the URL that appears in the notification in the tag loss mode.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thus, when scanning a hacked AirTag on a smartphone, a fake link is displayed, which does not lead to the Apple service page for finding lost devices Find My, but to another site.\u00a0This opportunity can be used by phishing attackers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"865\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-12.jpg 865w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-12-711x658.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-12-800x740.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Pasted-12-770x712.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1620643229318532786=\"true\"><p>Built a quick demo: AirTag with modified NFC URL<\/p>\n<p>(Cables only used for power)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DrMIK49Tu0\">pic.twitter.com\/DrMIK49Tu0<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; stacksmashing (@ghidraninja)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ghidraninja\/status\/1391165711448518658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is worth noting that it is still possible to hack AirTag only with the help of changes in the microcontroller program, for which it is necessary to have physical access to the beacon.\u00a0The search system itself does not contain any vulnerabilities.\u00a0Perhaps Apple will pay attention to this and implement some kind of protective mechanism to prevent the modified AirTag from accessing the Find My network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apple AirTag search beacon went on sale at the end of last month, and since then, users have been doing various experiments with this gadget.\u00a0However, the greatest interest is not associated with the fact that it can be embedded somewhere or discreetly planted for surveillance.\u00a0It turns out that AirTag can be hacked, as demonstrated [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/gadgets\/to-the-delight-of-scammers-apple-airtag-has-already-been-hacked\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":130362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-130359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}