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Updated: Nothing But Scary: Wireless Hacks Disable Car on Interstate

ID: 143e3d29-dccd-5c4f-a6a7-a325c1a1a9f2

STIX ID: report--143e3d29-dccd-5c4f-a6a7-a325c1a1a9f2

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2015-07-21

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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Researchers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller demonstrated a remote wireless compromise of Chrysler's Uconnect-connected vehicles (notably a 2014 Jeep Cherokee), showing they could rewrite the entertainment head-unit firmware, reach the CAN bus, and control critical functions including braking and steering; the work highlights a systemic lack of separation between infotainment and vehicle control systems and urges automakers to improve software security and logging.

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