{"id":7783,"date":"2022-08-03T13:56:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T13:56:22","slug":"detecting-malicious-bluetooth-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/detecting-malicious-bluetooth-trackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Detecting Malicious Bluetooth Trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s new research from University of Washington on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/safe-things-2022.github.io\/accepted_papers\/safethings2022-final1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BLE-Doubt: Smartphone-Based Detection of Malicious Bluetooth Trackers University of Washington (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stalkers can hide Bluetooth beacons on targets&#8217; clothing or in vehicles so as to monitor their locations. The researchers created an open-source method of detecting maliciously deployed Bluetooth beacons.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/beacontracker.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/beacontracker.png 522w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/beacontracker-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 85vw, 522px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The algorithm detects malicious devices within a few minutes. The software scans for Bluetooth advertisements and stores a history so that an alert can be created if a beacon is following the same route as the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>iBeacon, Altbeacon, Eddystone, Tile, Chipolo, Spot, and AirTag are all detected with AirTags the greatest challenge due to rotation of their MAC addresses between every two hours and once a day and their erratic and unpredictable advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The app doing the scanning causes heavy smartphone battery use. The smartphone lost between 5% and 10% of its battery per hour during active scanning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/TrackerBeacons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Tracker Beacons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s new research from University of Washington on BLE-Doubt: Smartphone-Based Detection of Malicious Bluetooth Trackers University of Washington (PDF). Stalkers can hide Bluetooth beacons on targets&#8217; clothing or in vehicles so as to monitor their locations. The researchers created an open-source method of detecting maliciously deployed Bluetooth beacons. The algorithm detects malicious devices within a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/detecting-malicious-bluetooth-trackers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Detecting Malicious Bluetooth Trackers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}