Due to the active growth of the number of electrical vehicles and their deep digital integration, the problem of data security and control is becoming more relevant.
The European ethical hackers team managed to control the 2020 Nissan Leaf Electric Car, the Electk reports.
An experiment conducted by cybersecurity specialists from Budapest, Pcautomotive, revealed many weaknesses allowed not only to monitor the car at real time, but also get access to text messages, write drivers’ conversations, play sounds through car speakers, and, which -Contact protection from automatic hunger.
As part of the Black Hat Asia 2025 Cybersecurity Conference, the PCAutomotive Team introduced an 118-page technical presentation in which it was described in detail its hacking. All discovered weaknesses were reported by Nissan and its suppliers from August 2, 2023 to September 12, 2024.
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Especially stressful is how simple this attack is. It all started with an imitator of a car gathered from the details purchased on eBay and the subsequent use of weakness on the DNS C2 channel and the bluetooth electric leaf protocol.
Hackers emphasized that all actions have made good intentions and exclusively to improve the safety of cars. They warned Nissan in advance, giving companies the time to correct shortcomings.
However, the fact that an ordinary electrical car can be a completely distant controlled machine, which also records the confidential communication of passengers, which has caused serious concern to the expert environment.
In a commentary for securityweek, a Nissan representative commented that they had actually contacted the company and had already introduced, but refused to disclose specific countermeasures or details for security reasons.
We will remind you, earlier that Nissan had been able to complete the financial person with losses on the record.
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