Once again, we are approaching the end of the year, so what could be more convenient than an end-of-the-year-list of cyber incidents within automotive cybersecurity. The list is taken from Upstream’s 2021 Automotive Cybersecurity Report, and the incidents are just...

The global fractions of cyber-attacks on the energy sector have always been significantly higher than those for other sectors. Oddly, most of the research focused mainly on energy efficiency than the security issues in this sector. With electric vehicles (EVs) in the...

The way ransomware used to work was that the attackers would block access to the victim’s data by encrypting it and thereby making it unavailable. The attackers would then request a ransom for a decryption key so that the locked data could be made available...

Hacking EVs could threaten the power grid   In mid-June last summer, cybersecurity researchers warned that the growing popularity of electric vehicles could introduce new hacking vulnerabilities in the power grid. Even though this might be a not-so-recent piece of...

Mattia Dal Ben, a community member of hackady.io, recently shared details of his interesting modification for accessing his Tesla car. The modification allows him to access his Tesla Model 3 car with his classic, old-school retro Casio watch. However, the road to...

An amateur researcher who goes by the nickname @greentheonly on Twitter, and describes himself as a “Tesla tinkerer that's curious about how things work,” recently gained access to 13 media control units (MCUs) that were removed from different Tesla vehicles during...