Security enhancement of EV aided Smart Grid using Blockchain

Distributed Energy Sources (DESs) such as Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) also known as Distributed Energy Pro-consumers (DEPs) are designed to consume energy from the Smart Grid (SG) on a regular basis. However, as SGs evolve, these...

Automotive Security Attacks in Numbers

In this short article we have a look at the data from the paper “Resilient Shield: Reinforcing the Resilience of Vehicles Against Security Threats” by Strandberg et al. published in 2021. The paper systematically reviews disclosed attacks targeting the...

Acoustic Attacks to Blind Autonomous Vehicles

Approximately one year ago the AutoSec newsletter reported on so-called remote phantom attacks where the ADASs and autopilots of semi/fully autonomous vehicles considered depth-less objects (phantoms) as real. This kind of attacks is referred to as phantom attacks and...

JVCKenwood hit by Conti ransomware attack

A Conti ransomware assault has attacked JVCKenwood, a Japanese multinational company that specializes in both automobile and home electronics, with hackers claiming to have taken 1.7 TB of the company’s data and demanding a $7 million ransom for a file...