Your car’s smartest features are opening doors for hackers
The biggest threat to your car was once a coat hanger combined with a questionable sense of morality. Today, thieves barely need to leave the comfort of their own couch.
Modern vehicles are computers on wheels, communicating with your smartphone, other cars, satellites, and cloud servers to navigate, entertain, and even drive for you. It's all so convenient, right up until somebody with less-than-honorable intentions finds a way into your vehicle’s digital conversation.
A new study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has found that the biggest cybersecurity risks facing modern vehicles are now found less within the vehicle’s core operations and increasingly outside of the cars themselves. And some of the weaknesses are embarrassingly basic.
The researchers examined 413 software vulnerabilities affecting connected vehicles between January 2022 and September 2024, comparing their findings with security issues documented over...
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