Hacking a car remotely with a 20$ device

[sandabot]

In the era of Smart devices, we have Smartphones, Smart TVs, Smart Fridges, and even the Smart cars! We have made our life very easy and comfortable by providing the master control of every task to such smart devices.

But imagine if an attacker wants to take revenge or hurt someone, now they can just hack cars, rather than failing their breaks in the traditional way. Sounds Horrible !

WELL, Two Security researchers - Javier Vazquez-Vidal and Alberto Garcia Illera have developed a homemade gadget called 'CAN Hacking Tools (CHT)', made up of a tiny device smaller than your Smartphone, which is enough to hack the Cars.

The Kit costs less than $20, but is far capable to take away car's entire control from windows and headlights to its steering and brakes.

The device uses the Controller Area Network (CAN) ports that are built into cars for computer-system checks, and draws power from the car’s electrical system. Injecting a malicious code to CAN ports allows an attacker to send wireless commands remotely from a computer. Once hackers take hold of this network they can control lights, locks, steering and even brakes.

“It can take five minutes or less to hook it up and then walk away,” says Vazquez Vidal to Forbes, adding, “We could wait one minute or one year, and then trigger it to do whatever we have programmed it to do.”

They have already tested their CHT device on four different vehicles and successfully did tricks, including applying Emergency brakes while the car was in motion that could potentially cause a sudden stop in traffic, switching off headlights, setting off alarms, and affecting the steering.

Till now their device is capable to communicate via Bluetooth only, which is limited to minor range, but by soon they will upgrade it to use a GSM cellular radio that would make their device possible to control from miles away.

“All the ingredients of their tool are off-the-shelf components, so that even if the device is discovered, it wouldn’t necessarily provide clues as to who planted it. It’s totally untraceable”, says Vazquez Vidal. “A car is a mini network,” says his second partner Garcia Illera adding, “And right now there’s no security implemented.”

Source: Hacking a Car remotely with $20 iPhone sized Device - The Hacker News

[endemic]

Are cineva experienta cu protocolul CAN? Haideti sa ne jucam si noi.

[Gilbert]

I dont think this is something to play with. I know law envorcements wants this kind of systems to, but in case of a accedent who can proof that his or her car didnt function on the drivers instructions? Who can proof that the driver was not wrong but the car was jammed by other signals? This is simply unresponcible to abuse technology this way. The perfect murder becomes then way to easy. In what kind of sociaty do we come when any one can commit murders without being procecuted?

I think there is only one way to protect your self against this and that is by demolishing that kind of computer technologie out of your car till you got a plain car again where from you are sure that the driver is in controll and no one else, because as wel engineers as law envorcements became unresponcible with our lives.

[eromaster16]

tare )) dar nu merita riscu

[Gilbert]

How cool is it when your kid get a accedent because of that crazy shit?

Be sure it is then not funny at all anymore.

[Heaton]

Gilbert... te-ai murdarit la gura cu engleza? de ce pula mea nu folosesti Google translate? Daca e articolul in engleza asta nu inseamna ca trebuie s-o arzi pe engleza aici.

[Gilbert]

Yes, i do use google translate. My Romanian is not that great to understand and write in it. I do try to learn Romanian but it is not easy to come from a Germaan language and then switch over to a Latin language. So forgive me i write in English.