Car thefts with Airtags
Apple's AirTags are being used in an increasing number of car thefts in Canada, according to the York Regional Police.
Researchers have identified a new theft method for tracking and stealing high-end vehicles that takes advantage of the location tracking capabilities of the AirTag The purpose of this is to track the car high-end car back to a victim's residence, where it can be robbed.
As of September 2021, five incidents in which suspects used AirTags have been investigatedThieves target any particularly valuable vehicle they find in public places and unsecured parking lots, attaching an AirTag to inconspicuous places such as the trailer hitch or fuel cap in the hope that it won't be discovered by the car owner. .
Thieves have no way to disable Apple's anti-tracking features that alert users when an unknown nearby AirTag is tracking their location, but not all victims receive or act on the notification, or have a iPhone
iOS 15.2 will fight against this type of theft:
Once this news has broken, which will surely be an action that will go viral among thieves around the world, the only way to fight against it will be using one of the new functions of iOS 15.2 and which we already told you about in the past. Then we name it again:
The Search App will have a new button that will allow us to detect if there are devices that may be following us, even if they are not AirTags. If they are, we can make them ring from our iPhone even if it is not ours. Thus, we can easily locate them. From there, the user is given instructions on how to disable it. In this way, the user can force that warning instead of waiting for that AirTag to sound automatically.
It will be a basic function to fight against this type of theft and against unwanted tracking that some people can do with this type of device.
Hopefully iOS 15.2 arrives as soon as possible. It will be a version that all of us with compatible devices must download.
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