Question for those with expertise in this topic: how vulnerable are JLR’s key fobs to attacks like relay attacks? A neighbor got their G-Wagen stolen and from the looks of it it was a hacking job, which made me curious and go down the rabbit hole of modern key fobs and their vulnerabilities. So trying to understand what our key fobs do or don’t (e.g., go into sleep mode after the fob has been static for a certain amount of time) and how that changes by model year as I assume as these things evolve newer cars might have more protecting measures. Any insight would be helpful, as I am getting paranoid and looking at Faraday boxes to keep our car fobs in the house 🙂.

 

A thief with an Autel device breaks into your vehicle, plugs into your OBD port and duplicates your key to a key they brought with them. Starts cars and drives away. Takes just a few minutes.

 

This issue is not specific to Land Rover vehicles only. Any modern car with key fobs can be hacked into.

 

I have kept my keys in faraday pouches (small carbon fiber, available on Amazon) since the day I picked up the Defender. My sister's neighbor had their Tesla stolen by thieves intercepting the traffic between key fob and vehicle, so for less than $20 I avoid that.

 

I thought they now required the whole keyless module to be replaced when adding a key to prevent this?