There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes - As car owners grow hip to one form a theft, crooks are turning to new ones.

TL;DR

When a London man discovered the front left-side bumper of his Toyota RAV4 torn off and the headlight partially dismantled not once but twice in three months last year, he suspected the acts were senseless vandalism. When the vehicle went missing a few days after the second incident, and a neighbor found their Toyota Land Cruiser gone shortly afterward, he discovered they were part of a new and sophisticated technique for performing keyless thefts. Besides controlling the components, ECUs send status messages over the CAN to keep other ECUs apprised of current conditions

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