Hackers Are Stealing Cars by Injecting Code Into Headlight Wiring
High-tech thieves are stealing cars using a device that injects CAN messages into a vehicle's headlight harness.
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It may be a Toyota-only exploit.
Secret proprietary systems exist to be hacked and understood. It's the "intellectual property" syndrome enforced by managers with no idea how their systems work. Exploits soon follow.
Secret proprietary systems exist to be hacked and understood. It's the "intellectual property" syndrome enforced by managers with no idea how their systems work. Exploits soon follow.
Apparently the claim is that it works on "BMW, Cadillac, Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, GMC, Honda, Jeep, Jaguar, Lexus, Maserati, Nissan, Toyota, as well as Volkswagen"
But not demonstrated on those makes. I;m sceptical about a lot of this stuff. Some systems, like VAG and PSA and the US brands are significantly understood, but the proof is seeing it done. The software for reading and fiddling CAN systems is open source (and even comes ready to use in Linux repos) but the published car data seems to be fragmentary. Hackers keep secrets too.
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Gee's what a lot of effort, I could steel most of my cars with a piece of wire and something to short a solenoid with 
anything metalic woulddo
anything metalic woulddo
Still works a treat CAN bus or no CAN bus
they are my wife and daughters cars
.... the CX might be slightly more difficult to steal than the other proper cars ....
I could do a all keys lost on a new RAV4 in 5 minutes with the autel can’t see why you would bother mucking around with that crap peugeot would be about the same
The thief gets more sophisticated. There is always a hacker more motivated to crack the system than designers trying to prevent it. If and when the self driving cars arrive, Can can see cars getting stolen remotely.
That's assuming the nearest Police station actually has some staff in attendance and is open.
