{"id":166499,"date":"2023-06-27T08:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/flipper-hacking-device-on-track-to-make-80m-worth-of-sales"},"modified":"2023-06-27T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:22:56","slug":"flipper-hacking-device-on-track-to-make-80m-worth-of-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/flipper-hacking-device-on-track-to-make-80m-worth-of-sales","title":{"rendered":"Flipper hacking device on track to make $80M worth of sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flipper-hacking-device-on-track-to-make-80m-worth-of-sales2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may have stumbled across the <a href=\"https:\/\/flipperzero.one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flipper Zero hacking device<\/a> that\u2019s been doing the rounds. The company, which started in Russia in 2020, left the country at the start of the war and moved on since then. It claims it no longer has ties to Russia and that it is on track to sell $80 million worth of its products this year after selling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/flipper-devices\/flipper-zero-tamagochi-for-hackers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost $5 million worth as Kickstarter preorders<\/a> \u2014 and it claims it sold $25 million worth of the devices last year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aSL3Xy_OGP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So what are they selling? Flipper Zero is a \u201cportable gamified multi-tool\u201d aimed at everyone with an interest in cybersecurity, whether as a penetration tester, curious nerd or student \u2014 or with more nefarious purposes. The tool includes a bunch of ways to manipulate the world around you, including wireless devices (think garage openers), RFID card systems, remote keyless systems, key fobs, entry to barriers, etc. Basically, you can program it to emulate a bunch of different lock systems.<\/p>\n<p>The system really works, too \u2014 I\u2019m not much of a hacker, but I\u2019ve been able to open garages, activate elevators and open other locking systems that <em>should<\/em> be way beyond my hacking skill level. On the one hand, it\u2019s an interesting toy to experiment with, which highlights how insecure much of the world around us actually is. On the other hand, I\u2019m curious if it\u2019s a great idea to have 300,000+ hacking devices out in the wild that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aSL3Xy_OGP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make it easy to capture car key signals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D8pugz3B6-o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gate openers<\/a> and then use them to open said apertures (including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71hgckHGlxM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla charge ports<\/a>, for some bizarre reason).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have stumbled across the Flipper Zero hacking device that\u2019s been doing the rounds. The company, which started in Russia in 2020, left the country at the start of the war and moved on since then. It claims it no longer has ties to Russia and that it is on track to sell $80 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}