Black Hat Asia Researchers have used the Black Hat Asia conference to demonstrate the awesome power of the Raspberry Pi as a car-p0wning platform.
Chinese web giant Tencent's Blade Team, a security research group, showed they could circumvent payment schemes used at electric vehicle charging stations. Their exploits also changed the charging voltage and current, an act that could damage the EV.
“The construction of charging stations is accelerating all over the world, but there is little research on the security of electric vehicle infrastructure,” said TenCent Blade Team senior security researcher Wu HuiYu.
HuiYu and fellow TenCent Blader, Li YuXiang, tried out the attack on five rented electric cars of different models through a security test tool called “XCharger” that captures, modifies, replays and fuzzes the data packets in the communication process ..
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