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: Miki G.; > Internet of Things; > 28 February 2023

The automotive cybersecurity market could exceed $22 billion over the next seven years, based on security systems alone. In fact, digital technology in new generation cars, not only self-driving cars, but also thinking only of communication systems with production companies, is growing at a dizzying pace, improving more and more and highlighting at the same time the need for a global approach to security, to face the most sophisticated threats.

Future risks

Digitization grows and necessarily involves more and more actors, so even cars are equipped with increasingly effective, precise and evolved but necessarily interconnected systems, easy prey for cyber criminals. The automotive industry will thus find itself facing growing threats that will require a focused and aware approach. The vulnerabilities of cars that connect with social media or e-commerce channels, for example, will pave the way for the bad guys to access people's personal spheres, to a multitude of sensitive data, too often already ill-protected.

Both the driver assistance systems or the autonomous functions of the car can be compromised, putting the lives of the passengers at risk, but cyber criminals could also have access to the data on the smartphone connected to the car or to the GPS positions. Everything must be thought of in view of the connection of the systems with the computer networks of the manufacturing companies themselves, which could prove to be open doors, or almost so, for targeted attacks on organizations. And recent analyzes would have identified numerous flaws in the systems of the largest players in the automotive sector, with poorly protected documents and accounts.

Is Car Hacking Remote?

It is estimated that around 250 million cars are connected directly to the internet. Just think of wi-fi or Bluetooth technology, used for example to connect mobile phones, GPS, but also connected components such as adaptive cruise control or Cloud services. If to date the actual cases are still relatively few, around 900 car hacking attacks have been identified up to 2021 with a rapidly growing trend, the real risk is very worrying, so much so that the European Union has, in recent years, allocated millions Euros to make the software used for new generation cars safer.

The risk does not seem to be that of car control but rather the violation of personal data, with the violation of identities in the lead. According to recent studies it seems that in 40% of cases the owner's identity was violated while in 27% of hacking cases the car was stolen.

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