A hack has been created that can use some Android phone to open 3 million hotel rooms in 161 countries.
Back in 2022 in Las Vegas at a private event, researchers were asked to hack into a Las Vegas hotel room, and in addition to seeing if they could get past the digital door lock, they attempted to find vulnerabilities in other gadgets in the room. One group of researchers focused on getting the hotel room door to open. Now, in 2024, it turns out that a method was discovered that would allow those with an Android phone to open millions of hotel rooms worldwide in just seconds.
According to Wired, a team of security researchers are unveiling a hotel keycard hack they call Unsaflok. This vulnerability affects the Saflok electronic RFID locks made by a company called Dormakaba. The hack can be used to unlock over three million hotel rooms found in over 13,000 properties located in 161 countries. The researchers took advantage of flaws in Dormakaba’s encryption and its RFID system.
