600,000 GPS child trackers found vulnerable to location tracking

600,000 GPS child trackers found vulnerable to location tracking

Today the use of trackers has become widespread, particularly due to the fine balance found between their ease of use and the security benefits attained. They can help you track your loved ones in real-time through GPS technology and hence be their safe keeper even from far away.


However, a crucial process among this is that the location transmission should be secure in itself otherwise attackers can benefit from it. For example, an attacker may use one’s location to know when they are at their most vulnerable and then attack them.

Keeping these potential risks in mind, Avast set out to study a variety of GPS tools found on the internet and how secure they are. For their first time, they chose a device named T8 Mini GPS Tracker which can be found on Amazon, Alibaba, and eBay among others.


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The device for sale on Alibaba.



To start with, the tracker offers a website and app to manage it. Upon accessing the site, it apparently did not have an child trackers found vulnerable location tracking