MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
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MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
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Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#2given car companies seem incapable of securing something as basic as a car key
how long until smart 12 year olds can remotely hijack major car brands on a freeway with a laptop and a small python script?
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#3Did you know that fully analogue human-piloted cars are vulnerable? Researchers have recently described the "MadBrick attack": a malicious attacker can remotely disable a human-piloted car or cause it to veer off road by dropping a brick through the windshield from an overpass. Clearly, car manufacturers need to promptly address this class of vulnerabilities.
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#4Does the trick with tape on the ground causing Teslas to steer into walls still work or did they patch that for all the ignorant alpha testers out there?
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#5Did you know that fully analogue human-piloted cars are vulnerable? Researchers have recently described the "MadBrick attack": a malicious attacker can remotely disable a human-piloted car or cause it to veer off road by dropping a brick through the windshield from an overpass. Clearly, car manufacturers need to promptly address this class of vulnerabilities.
Thats a little different in that the car wont override what ypu tell it to do from the brick attck but it potentially will for thw above attck.
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#6Did you know that fully analogue human-piloted cars are vulnerable? Researchers have recently described the "MadBrick attack": a malicious attacker can remotely disable a human-piloted car or cause it to veer off road by dropping a brick through the windshield from an overpass. Clearly, car manufacturers need to promptly address this class of vulnerabilities.
This has been addressed already, though not by manufacturers. If you live (or drive through) an area where brick attacks are known to happen, you just put protective films on the windshield. It usually still ends up damaged but you can continue to drive just fine (I know because I have).
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#7Spoofing radar signals isn't exactly new, and the ability to do it on the ground (so to speak) shouldn't be surprising. The military has been doing it for decades.
Also, it doesn't take nearly the sophistication of the system demo'ed here -- a chaff canister released into traffic would, I imagine, play twenty kinds of havoc on any autonomous driving system that relied on radar.
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#8Spoofing radar signals isn't exactly new, and the ability to do it on the ground (so to speak) shouldn't be surprising. The military has been doing it for decades. Also, it doesn't take nearly the sophistication of the system demo'ed here -- a chaff canister released into traffic would, I imagine, play twenty kinds of havoc on any autonomous driving system that relied on radar.
A large cloud of glitter would do the same for optical systems, e.g. human drivers. Shining intense light at drivers is also known to cause havoc and incidents. Now imagine a night road lit by a dancing hall light show; many human drivers would find themselves discombobulated.
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#9given car companies seem incapable of securing something as basic as a car key how long until smart 12 year olds can remotely hijack major car brands on a freeway with a laptop and a small python script?
Realistically, it's been possible on and off for quite some time. Chrysler's UConnect system received quite a bit of flak some years back over just how easy it was to take over full control of a vehicle[0]; not just locking/unlocking doors, but full control over the climate system and wipers, all the way up to starting and stopping the engine or changing gear in the transmission.
[0]: https://jalopnik.com/chryslers-uconnect-vulnerable-to-remote...
Re: MadRadar attack causes automotive radar to 'hallucinate'
#10Spoofing radar signals isn't exactly new, and the ability to do it on the ground (so to speak) shouldn't be surprising. The military has been doing it for decades. Also, it doesn't take nearly the sophistication of the system demo'ed here -- a chaff canister released into traffic would, I imagine, play twenty kinds of havoc on any autonomous driving system that relied on radar.
A large cloud of glitter would do the same for optical systems, e.g. human drivers. Shining intense light at drivers is also known to cause havoc and incidents. Now imagine a night road lit by a dancing hall light show; many human drivers would find themselves discombobulated.
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