New 4CAN tool helps identify vulnerabilities in on-board car computers

By Alex DeTrano, Jason Royes, and Matthew Valites. Executive summary Modern automobiles contain hundreds of sensors and mechanics that communicate via computers to understand their surrounding environment. Those components provide real-time information to drivers, connect the vehicle to a global...

DHS Warns Small Airplanes Vulnerable to Flight Data Manipulation Attacks

What could be more horrifying than knowing that a hacker can trick the plane's electronic systems into displaying false flight data to the pilot, which could eventually result in loss of control? Of course, the attacker would never wish to be on the same flight, so in this article, we are going t...

DHS Warning: Small Aircraft are Ripe for Hacking

The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert Tuesday warning that small aircraft are vulnerable to hackers that can gain physical access to a plane. It warned that a hacker can easily manipulate aircraft telemetry data, which can result in loss of control of the airplane. The bulletin was...

CAN Flood

This module floods a CAN interface with supplied frames. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'CAN Flood', 'Description' = 'This module floods a CAN interface with supplied frames.',...

Security Analysis Toolkit for Proprietary Car Protocols: CANalyzat0r

While car manufacturers steadily refine and advance vehicle systems, requirements of the underlying networks increase even further. Striving for smart cars, a fast-growing amount of components are interconnected within a single car. This results in specialized and often proprietary car protocols...

CBM - Car Backdoor Maker

A hardware-backdoor for CAN bus - by @UnaPibaGeek & @holesec For the first time, a hardware backdoor tool is presented having several advanced features, such as: remote control via SMS commands, automated launch of attack payloads at a GPS location or when a specific car status is reached; and a...

Check For and Prep the Pyrotechnic Devices (Airbags, Battery Clamps, etc.)

Acting in the role of a Pyrotechnical Device Deployment Tool PDT, this module will first query all Pyrotechnic Control Units PCUs in the target vehicle to discover how many pyrotechnic devices are present, then attempt to validate the security access token using the default simplified algorithm. ...

IoT is Insecure, Get Over It! Say Researchers

BOSTON—Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said the Internet of Things can’t be secure, but it can be tamed. Drawing from their car hacking experience, the two spent the morning contemplating the larger universe of IoT security and conceded that there will always be thousands ...

CVE-2017-14937

The airbag detonation algorithm allows injury to passenger-car occupants via predictable Security Access SA data to the internal CAN bus or the OBD connector. This affects the airbag control units aka pyrotechnical control units or PCUs of unspecified passenger vehicles manufactured in 2014 or...

Design/Logic Flaw

The airbag detonation algorithm allows injury to passenger-car occupants via predictable Security Access SA data to the internal CAN bus or the OBD connector. This affects the airbag control units aka pyrotechnical control units or PCUs of unspecified passenger vehicles manufactured in 2014 or...

CVE-2017-14937

The CVE describes a vulnerability in airbag pyrotechnic control units (PCUs) affecting unspecified passenger vehicles (2014+ when ignition is on and speed

CVE-2017-14937

The airbag detonation algorithm allows injury to passenger-car occupants via predictable Security Access SA data to the internal CAN bus or the OBD connector. This affects the airbag control units aka pyrotechnical control units or PCUs of unspecified passenger vehicles manufactured in 2014 or...

Building a Car Hacking Development Workbench: Part 1

Introduction There is a vast body of knowledge hiding inside your car. Whether you are an auto enthusiast, developer, hobbyist, security researcher, or just curious about vehicles, building a development bench can be an exciting project to facilitate understanding and experimentation without...

Building a Car Hacking Development Workbench: Part 2

This is part two of a three-part series. Part one covered how to build a development workbench. Part two of this series will cover reading electrical diagrams and serve as a primer for part three, where we will re-engineer common circuit types found in vehicles. Electrical Diagrams &...

Car Backdoor Maker: CBM

Car Backdoor Maker For the first time, a hardware backdoor tool is presented having several advanced features, such as: remote control via SMS commands, automated launch of attack payloads at a GPS location or when a specific car status is reached; and a configuration interface that allows users ...

Module to Probe Different Data Points in a CAN Packet

Scans between two CAN IDs and writes data at each byte position. It will either write a set byte value Default 0xFF or iterate through all possible values of that byte position takes much longer. Does not check for responses and is basically a simple blind fuzzer. This module requires Metasploit:...

Patched Flaw in Bosch Diagnostic Dongle Allowed Researchers to Shut Off Engine

Two vulnerabilities were identified in Bosch’s Drivelog Connect OBD-II dongle and smartphone app that allowed researchers to shut off the engine of a vehicle. One of the issues was patched via server-side fix, Bosch said in an April 13 statement, while the other in the dongle itself will be handl...

Bosch automotive Drivelog Connector dongle remote vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In this article, we will be on the Argus research team at Bosch Drivelog Connect BOD-II adapter in the discovery of the vulnerability is discussed in detail. Note that this vulnerability would allow an attacker to by Drivelog platform to stop a running car engine. According to the Argus of the...

CVE-2016-9337

An issue was discovered in Tesla Motors Model S automobile, all firmware versions before version 7.1 2.36.31 with web browser functionality enabled. The vehicle's Gateway ECU is susceptible to commands that may allow an attacker to install malicious software allowing the attacker to send messages...

Command injection

An issue was discovered in Tesla Motors Model S automobile, all firmware versions before version 7.1 2.36.31 with web browser functionality enabled. The vehicle's Gateway ECU is susceptible to commands that may allow an attacker to install malicious software allowing the attacker to send messages...