Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements, From Homes To Private Spaces | Carscoops
The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was stored on a poorly secured Amazon cloud account for months
Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription. Additionally, an attacker could silently obtain personal information, including the victim's name, phone number, email address, and physical address. This would allow the attacker to add themselves as an invisible second user on the victim's vehicle without their knowledge.
Rental Car Vendor's Security Flaw Exposed Damage Claims Reports
Legitimate emails with bad practices and an insecure website add insult to injury.
Major US car rental breach exposes hundreds of thousands
Attackers roamed the systems of Avis Car Rental, a major car rental service provider, for several days, accessing data of nearly 300,000 individuals. Malicious actors breached Avis systems on August 3rd and roamed inside the system for three days until the company secured its networks. The company’s data breach notification letter, submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, states that Avis discovered the breach on August 5th, indicating it took at least one day to kick the malicious actors out.
Flipper Zero WiFi phishing attack can unlock and steal Tesla cars
An easy phishing attack using a Flipper Zero device can lead to compromising Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7.
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Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars | Reuters
Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.
How I Hacked my Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
Making Software I am a programmer by nature. I now had root access to a cool new linux box so now I must develop software for it. The Goal While looking through many of the IVI’s files, I found tons of really cool C++ header files relating to ccOS in /usr/include. ccOS is the Connected Car Operating System, an OS developed by Nvidia and Hyundai which is supposed to power all Hyundai vehicles from 2022 onwards, but I guess some of the underlying system was in previous Hyundai vehicles for quite some time.
Special Report: Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars | Reuters
Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.
How I Hacked my Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
Making Software I am a programmer by nature. I now had root access to a cool new linux box so now I must develop software for it. The Goal While looking through many of the IVI’s files, I found tons of really cool C++ header files relating to ccOS in /usr/include. ccOS is the Connected Car Operating System, an OS developed by Nvidia and Hyundai which is supposed to power all Hyundai vehicles from 2022 onwards, but I guess some of the underlying system was in previous Hyundai vehicles for quite some time.
How I Hacked my Car Guides: Creating Custom Firmware
Making Software I am a programmer by nature. I now had root access to a cool new linux box so now I must develop software for it. The Goal While looking through many of the IVI’s files, I found tons of really cool C++ header files relating to ccOS in /usr/include. ccOS is the Connected Car Operating System, an OS developed by Nvidia and Hyundai which is supposed to power all Hyundai vehicles from 2022 onwards, but I guess some of the underlying system was in previous Hyundai vehicles for quite some time.