How did a company in Beijing lose tens of millions by being eavesdropped by GPS locator?

Recently, a security company in Beijing suffered heavy losses because of eavesdropping on trade secrets, and its bid failed. The eavesdropper turned out to be our usual GPS locator.

In a security company in Beijing, the reporter saw such a small black box. The staff told the reporter that the meeting of the enterprise to discuss the marketing plan was highly confidential, but no one expected that the little black box was hidden under the seat. Due to the disclosure of trade secrets, the enterprise failed in bidding and lost tens of millions of yuan. This little black box is a GPS locator.

The reporter tried to buy a product for testing and opened its packaging. It was a plastic box the size of a matchbox. The reporter installed the APP on the mobile phone according to the instructions and opened the APP. Sure enough, the vehicle trajectory can be observed in real time on it. The next attempt is remote monitoring.

Two reporters agreed that one would stay in the car with the locator and the other would go back to the office to prepare for listening. It turns out that no matter how loud or small the eavesdropper's voice is, the monitored voice is as clear as talking to the other party. In addition, in the interface of the APP, there is also a "remote recording" button. After startup, this conversation will be saved in the phone.

In other words, as long as such a GPS locator is placed next to the eavesdropper, it is equivalent to putting a mobile phone that keeps talking. All sounds will be transmitted to the eavesdropper's mobile phone and even recorded, but the eavesdropper doesn't know what happened.

Extended data

The GPS locator forms a supervision blind spot;

GPS locator is widely used in private car anti-theft and enterprise vehicle management. But when the GPS locator is designed to be small and easy to hide, it can listen to the sound remotely, which makes the product taste bad. Moreover, some manufacturers and sellers also use the blind spot of supervision to more or less explicitly imply their hidden functions in some electronic product promotion advertisements.

This kind of GPS locator can receive radio remotely, and its internal structure is very simple: an Internet of Things chip and a battery for power supply. The chip receives the satellite data, transmits the data to the signal tower, and then transmits the positioning data to the server through the signal tower. Users can get the precise location of the chip by sending a request to the server. Compared with the general Internet of Things chip, this chip has a micro microphone.

At present, GPS locator and other products have not been listed in the national compulsory product certification catalogue. However, on this basis, adding functions such as microphone radio has no relevant management regulations, forming a regulatory blind spot. It is this blind spot that manufacturers and sellers are more or less used to express their hidden functions in promotional advertisements of such products.

A new vision of the northern night-think carefully and be afraid! A company in Beijing was eavesdropped by GPS locator, and the loss was10 million, which was like a spy war plot.