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New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance
2024-08-05 11:07

Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other's speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread. Tags: cars, patents, police.

APT28 Targets Diplomats with HeadLace Malware via Car Sale Phishing Lure
2024-08-02 16:16

A Russia-linked threat actor has been linked to a new campaign that employed a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called HeadLace. "The campaign likely targeted diplomats and began as early as March 2024," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a report published today, attributing it with medium to high level of confidence to APT28, which is also referred to as BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Fighting Ursa, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, ITG05, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and TA422.

Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack
2024-07-12 23:53

CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware. Last week, CDK restored services to car dealerships across the US after a two-week outage caused by a "Cyber incident" that looked a lot like a ransomware infection.

Car dealers stuck in the slow lane after cyber woes at software biz CDK
2024-06-24 18:02

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Car dealer software bigshot CDK pulls systems offline twice amid 'cyber incident'
2024-06-20 20:50

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CDK Global cyberattack impacts thousands of US car dealerships
2024-06-19 17:58

Car dealership software-as-a-service provider CDK Global was hit by a massive cyberattack, causing the company to shut down its systems and leaving clients unable to operate their business normally.CDK Global provides clients in the auto industry a SaaS platform that handles all aspects of a car dealership's operation, including CRM, financing, payroll, support and service, inventory, and back office operations.

Researchers warn robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and paint daubed on cardboard
2024-06-03 05:48

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New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI
2024-05-10 16:01

The shade of red on a stop sign could look different on each line depending on the time between the diode flash and the line capture. The result is the camera capturing an image full of lines that don't quite match each other.

GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs
2024-05-10 14:04

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Long Article on GM Spying on Its Cars’ Drivers
2024-04-26 11:01

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