Heads up to Kia owners/potential buyers: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

WIRED
@briankrebs
The lesson is never ever connect a car to be network or to your smartphone, especially if this relies on an external service
@Salvo sadly it seems to it is not enough since every "recent" #kia car is susceptible to this attack, even those whose owner has not subscribed to online services… 😭

@paoloredaelli I blame Musk.
Not just because it is the thing to do on Mastodon, but because the whole “let’s add every cheap computer gimmick to a car to compete with Tesla” thing has corrupted Automakers.

Don’t get me started on GMs project Edsel…