A date for the AutoSec Yearly Conference has been set to March 9, 2022.
The event will be at Lindholmen in Gothenburg, Sweden. We aim for a physical event but will also offer an online opportunity. A complete agenda will be published later but results from the CyReV project are expected to be presented. If you book your travel and hotel...
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...
Security Flaw in the Pod Point App That May Have Put 140 000 App Users’ Data at Risk
Earlier this year in March, a London-based independent security research consultancy called 6point6 (founded in 2012) researched on different mobile apps that were being used for charging electric vehicles (EVs). In one of the apps investigated, 6Point6 found a flaw...
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 vehicle which...
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 decryptor. On...