Vehicles being stolen using headlight jumper and CAN Bus hack

[Cobra Jet]

Just saw this over on The Drive… very interesting article and the resulting research to find out how it is being done…

https://www.thedrive.com/news/shade...-cars-by-injecting-code-into-headlight-wiring

https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/

https://arstechnica.com/information...iously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/

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[Skye]

A new attack vector. Pretty cool. By physically inserting themselves at the lighting interface, they place themselves inside the car's network. No need for hacking security at that point. Just send a few frames of data to unlock and/or start the car.

It's been a few years, but similar attacks (proven) and concerns were expressed about gaining access to an aircraft's internal control systems.

 

[raptor17GT]

the wonders of technology and industries that know little to nothing and care even less about security.

 

[Balr14]

This is why I crusaded for years to have companies and government agencies keep their critical data on mainframes. The operating system and language architecture does not facilitate hacking of any kind.

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