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Best I can get is figuring out a way to reuse some pins on the uc to isolate two or three caps to use as voltage pumps and then dump the whole thing at once into the battery.
I somehow suspect Electroboom is going to get a lot of new viewers in the next few days
Reading a bit more into it, seems all of them were Motorola Apollo Gold pagers (I stand corrected), so they had to have exploited the li-on charging pins to either create a loop causing thermal runaway, or spam different voltage discharging signals via their payload. Regardless, it’s a truly impressive exploit.
The newer gapollo ALA25v6 by Apollo is in Farsi and I am having trouble translating from pdf, but I found an older one for the ala25v4 in English here:
Best I can get is figuring out a way to reuse some pins on the uc to isolate two or three caps to use as voltage pumps and then dump the whole thing at once into the battery.
I somehow suspect Electroboom is going to get a lot of new viewers in the next few days
Reading a bit more into it, seems all of them were
MotorolaApollo Gold pagers (I stand corrected), so they had to have exploited the li-on charging pins to either create a loop causing thermal runaway, or spam different voltage discharging signals via their payload. Regardless, it’s a truly impressive exploit.You must have read that wrong - this was clearly committed by Israeli super spy Moty Rola.
Seriously though - they were all from a single Iranian supplier, not Motorola (at least according to every source I can find)
Yeah, news still coming in, hard to make sense of it all. I am now seeing models in the attack as being: Apollo Gold AP-700, AP-900 and AR-924.
Ap-900 Battery electrical specs: 10-30VDC or 8-18VAC Input 3-40VDC/25VAC Standby <10mA Active <100mA Tolerance -10’C ~ +50’C
Ah. So the G_Apollo AL-A25 logic chip used in these models is programmable and unlocked by default lol.
Programmable chip responsible:
GAPOLLO AL-A25_6 RA5794.1 chip = AP-900 and AR-924 models
Do you have a datasheet link for that chip? I get results for a different pager module when I include “AL-A25_6” and zero results with only “RA5794.1”
The original is down now or being flooded:
https://www.apollopagers.com/support/al-a25-gold-pc-programming-manual/
The newer gapollo ALA25v6 by Apollo is in Farsi and I am having trouble translating from pdf, but I found an older one for the ala25v4 in English here:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1198103/Gold-Apollo-Al-A25.html?page=23&term=voltage&selected=1#manual