An Overview of GPS Tracking and Future Application for IoT
Summary: Unit 42 researchers used the open-source tool Kepler on Google Takeout data from a Pixel phone to show how GPS records reveal location, velocity, and altitude, including a device tracked at roughly 450 mph at 35,000 feet. The post notes Gartner's projection of 25 billion IoT and IoMT devices by 2021, cites malware such as Exodus collecting GPS data from infected mobile devices, and warns that GPS signals can be spoofed with false coordinates.
What's compelling: The same GPS pings that let investigators place two devices at one location for a six-hour window, or flag a phone moving at 85 mph, are the data attackers already harvest through malware like Exodus - and a spoofed coordinate set can put a device anywhere in the world.
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