☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AutomotiveSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutomotiveSecurity</span></a> experts say they have uncovered a method of car theft relying on direct access to the vehicle's system bus via a smart headlamp's wiring.</p><p>It all started when a Toyota <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RAV4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAV4</span></a> belonging to one of the tech gurus suffered suspicious damage to the front wing and headlight housing, and was eventually successfully stolen. Some sleuthing and reverse engineering revealed how the motor was finally nicked.</p><p>Ken Tindell, CTO of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Canis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canis</span></a> Automotive Labs, said the evidence pointed to thieves' successful execution of a so-called CAN <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/injection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>injection</span></a>.</p><p>A Controller Area Network (<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CAN</span></a>) bus is present in nearly all modern cars, and is used by microcontrollers and other devices to talk to each other within the vehicle and carry out the work they are supposed to do.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CarTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarTheft</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacking</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/networks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networks</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/06/can_injection_attack_car_theft/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2023/04/06/can</span><span class="invisible">_injection_attack_car_theft/</span></a>></p>