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BMW: Thieves use security holes and steal luxury cars - users complain: "Grossly negligent, crap, scandal"

2021-01-28T21:10:43.806Z


BMW is having problems with their keyless go systems. In the past few weeks, thieves took advantage of a security hole in the remote control keys and stole the cars with little effort.


BMW is having problems with their keyless go systems.

In the past few weeks, thieves took advantage of a security hole in the remote control keys and stole the cars with little effort.

  • The Bavarian premium manufacturer

    BMW

    has been targeted by gangs of thieves.

  • Again and again,

    high-tech gangs use

    a

    security

    hole in the keyless go system.

  • This causes severe

    criticism on the

    Internet

    .

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Update from December 14th, 4:01 p.m.

- Police warnings about increased theft of

BMW

vehicles

via

Keyless Go

have caused a stir on the web.

Many users point out that the problems with cracked radio keys have been around for years.

But manufacturers such as

BMW have

failed to protect their Keyless Go systems from hacker attacks

to date

.

The inaction of the manufacturers is a "scandal", writes a user on Merkur.de.

It is surprising that to date no automaker has been sued for the inadequately secured technology, writes another.

The "keyless systems invite theft".

This is "actually grossly negligent".

Another user also calls on insurers to increase the pressure on manufacturers.

Keyless-Go

systems should be taken into account when

calculating the comprehensive insurance premiums

.

This would be "fair to prudent drivers," they say.

When the vehicle is attacked, thieves quickly extend the radio signal from the keyless go key and unlock the car almost effortlessly.

To prevent the attacks, many manufacturers recently equipped their systems with new motion sensors.

You interrupt the radio signal after a specified period of time and thus cannot be attacked.

However, experts do not consider these systems to be secure either.

ADAC

expert

Arnulf Thiemel

told Merkur.de on Monday

that it would take two minutes to crack the signal

.

BMW thieves steal luxury cars with a super trick - Munich police sound the alarm after an eerie series

First report from December 11th, 2:14 p.m.

- When it comes to comfort and additional equipment, the premium manufacturers like to go all out.

After all, extras like massage functions and fat sound systems bring real money to manufacturers.

It's

no different

at

BMW

.

But recently the group has growing problems with

special equipment.

At the beginning of November, thieves stole

five

BMW

brand cars

in the greater

Munich

area

- via

Keyless Go

.

This is a type of remote control key in which a chip establishes a connection with the car and unlocks it as soon as you are in the vicinity.

Many drivers find this pretty handy.

Because the remote control key can confidently remain in your pocket when you get in and it also locks the car automatically if you are a few meters away after getting out.

But now there are increasing cases in which thieves exploit the radio signal and crack expensive luxury cars seemingly effortlessly.

According to the Munich police, five

BMW

vehicles were

stolen

within three weeks in November

.

The damage amounted to a whopping 500,000 euros.

A police spokesman told

Merkur.de

that all of the cars were “M models and all of them have Keyless Go”

.

BMW: High-tech gangs target luxury cars

Now the next BMWs have been cracked in Thuringia.

Within a few days, thieves

stole

an

X5

and an

X6

in the Heilbad Heiligenstadt area around 60 kilometers north of Erfurt

, reports the

Thüringische Allgemeine

.

Both were also equipped with Keyless Go.

"The police are now warning car owners who use this system as it is very susceptible to theft," reports the newspaper.

Once again, thieves have stolen a BMW in #Eichsfeld.

The @Polizei_Thuer now warns the users of a certain vehicle key type: https://t.co/dn92GhOP2f

- TLZ (@TLZnews) December 10, 2020

According to the

Munich police

, the high-tech thieves preferred residential areas in which “the vehicles could be relatively easily assigned to individual houses”, for example on sidewalks or property driveways.

The gangs insisted that the vehicle keys would be placed close to the front door and without further ado extended the radio signal to open the cars.

According to the police, the necessary hardware can be easily ordered on the Internet.

Technology-savvy hobbyists could "assemble the appropriate devices themselves," said a spokesman.

BMW: Group uses new Keyless Go system

The problem is well known

at

BMW

.

In order to "increase theft protection", new series have been equipped with a revised generation of radio remote controls since March 2018, a

BMW

spokesman said on request.

The keyless go systems have an integrated sensor that switches off the radio signal as soon as the key is not moved for more than two minutes.

In this way, the system is “no longer vulnerable to radio wave extension,” assures the car manufacturer.

The new keyless go systems are said to be gradually being brought into series production in the vehicles of the 5, 6, 7, 8 series, the X3, X4, X5, i3 and i8 series as well as the “new model generations of 3 and Z4” been ".

Since spring 2019, the derivatives X1, X2, 2 Series Active Tourer, 2 Series Gran Tourer and the MINI models have also been equipped with the new radio remote control.

The Munich-based car manufacturer also offers a retrofit option for numerous older models.

BMW

is by no means an isolated case.

It was only at the end of November that researchers from the Catholic University of

Leuven 

in 

Belgium discovered 

a serious security gap in the keyless entry system of the 

Tesla

Model X and hacked the car with technology for just under 180 euros.

BMW Keyless Go: That's what the police advise

If you want to protect a car equipped with Keyless Go from radio attacks, you should park your vehicle "if possible in a garage clearly separated from your apartment", the police recommend.

The corresponding radio keys should also not be placed near windows or doors.

In addition, there is another simple trick that can be used: "Put your vehicle keys in a metal box".

This is how the signal can be shielded, advises the police.

Source: merkur

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