cybersecurity
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A Flipper Zero Can Now Act as an Industrial Crane Remote, Because Its Radio Has No Checksum Industrial crane remotes are the chunky orange handsets that move tonnes of steel in factories and yards, and you would hope their radio link is hard to fake. IoT security researcher Matt Brown (Brown Fine Security) reverse-engineered a Telecrane-style remote and its receiver, then wrote an open-source Flipper Zero app that listens to a real remote, learns its ID over the air and sends its own… |
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Researchers Show You Can Beam RF at a Stranger's Headphones and Eavesdrop on What They're Listening To A team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University has demonstrated a new eavesdropping technique that turns ordinary consumer electronics into unintentional radio transmitters, using nothing but an external RF signal and the target device's own circuitry. The attack, detailed in a paper accepted to USENIX Security 2026 and… |
