Leave the screwdriver and USB charging cable aside, the latest way to steal a Kia simply requires a mobile phone and the victim's license plate number.
Sam Curry, who previously discovered remote vulnerabilities in a range of brands (from Toyota to Rolls Royce), announced the vulnerability in vehicles manufactured from 2014 onwards. Cars can be geo-located, turned on or off, locked or unlocked, honking, lights on or off, even their cameras – all remotely.
The vulnerability also exposes victims' personal information (name, phone number, email, and physical address) and allows attackers to add themselves as invisible secondary users to the vehicle.
The issue arose on a Kia online portal used by dealerships. Curry and the Kia Boyz team managed to register a fake dealer account to get a valid access token, which they could then use to call any support dealer they wanted with an API command.
"From the victim's end, there was no notification that someone else had access to their vehicle, nor that their access permissions were changed," Curry said.
“An attacker could find information from someone's license plate, and enter their VIN through the API. It can then passively monitor him and send various commands such as unlock, start or honk.”
Curry's team developed a smartphone tool that automated the process, but did not release it. Curry Reported that Kia has fixed the problem and verified that the exploit no longer works.
Not that it matters…
"Cars will continue to have vulnerabilities," Curry says. In the same way that Meta could with a password change allow someone to take over your Facebook account, car manufacturers could do the same with your vehicle."
@giorgos Mr. We would save the planet with paper straws (which after all are carcinogenic, according to research), but we also burned all the forests for furfurs.
Those who want to "Save" us from "Climate change" gathered in Davos traveling with their Jets (over 150 of them) each of which burns about 1000 liters per hour, and they went to their cabins, with the Their 3-liter and 5-liter gasoline and diesel jeeps to suggest us NOT to use airplanes, because they pollute the environment, NOT to use gasoline and diesel cars, but only electric ones....
And the Farm Animals below were clapping with pride... Apparently the HAY has had a long run.
Yesterday I happened to see a movie from 2006, idiocracy, where the evolution of human thought and by extension the IQ of the human race is described. At first I laughed, but then I realized that it was a purely allegorical film where 20 years ago today's situations were described, with "N" and "S".
From sitting all day long in an armchair in front of a TV (only 20% of which had a project - theme and the rest of the screen was covered with advertisements), to feeding the individual with a tube so that he does not "need" to go away from his TV screen. In fact, the armchair also had a toilet bowl on its seat so that ... everything (see the debunking of the masses) is done in front of a screen that doesn't let you go somewhere else or think about anything more than what it tells you.
I made this 2-paragraph preface only to come to the following conclusion: ever since these ... panaceas of our "saving the planet", electric vehicles, came out, advertisers, journalists and "experts" rushed to convince the (stupid ) masses that without them (the electric cars) you are an enemy of the people and/or a useless and dangerous part of the human race.
And the masses lost it. To a large extent, showing what the astrophysicist and philosopher Manos Danezis says and is succinctly described as: the modern inhabitants of the planet are only interested in their image, to be seen by those around them and not to think.
I add that others are interested in their image because they have a "radish" IQ and others because of imitation, to such an extent that their ... acuity does not allow them to search the internet for operators such as: are electric cars safe? or the: what acceleration causes an electric vehicle during its construction and the construction of its parts (see batteries, etc.) and what others will do in order to "differ" from the "flaw".
Coincidentally today iguru has another related article, the http://iguru.gr/fortigo-gemato-mpataries-lithiou-ekrignytai-kai-kaigetai-gia-mia-olokliri-imera/ which demonstrates the degree of danger of lithium batteries. Yes. Those that are used in electric cars, but also in the mobile phones we have in our pockets (I am reminded of the batteries of the "huge" mobile phone company that exploded for no reason (see impact, breaking, bending them) 20 years ago.
And yet! If you say something like that in open speech, you are immediately a "sek", an extreme rightist, a fascist, an enemy of the climate, an enemy of the people. And who says it? Those who are unaware that they will soon need antivirus in their cars, those who are unaware that the manufacturing company can immobilize your car, the mother company or various government (and non) organizations can at any moment know where you are, what you are doing, what do you say, if... you eat a skewer in your car, citing: I don't care, because I have no secrets...
Conclusion: we are not moving towards a dystopian society. We are already in it. And the majority, not only does not realize it, but on the contrary, in fact, goes to flatten, to eliminate those who (still) think.
@giorgos Mr.
Unfortunately... You are right... The dumbing down has reached record levels, so has the irrationality.
Those who possess sound logic and thinking, are 'Baptized' PSEK and SAIKO... Especially in the time of PLANDIMIA,
There are several films that describe the crazy situations of today's society...