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Experts say it’s possible for hackers to take control of EV features, even trigger battery fires

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Experts say it’s possible for hackers to take control of EV features, even trigger battery fires
“You have hundreds of millions of lines of code inside a vehicle. If you were talking about autonomous vehicles, it's even more. But the number of lines of codes in a vehicle is continuously growing,” said Roy Fridman, CEO and chief revenue officer for C2A Security.
Kevin Killough
Oct. 5, 2024
--- Quote ---In September, thousands pagers and walkie-talkies held by members of Hezbollah exploded. The incident appears to have been the result of explosives hidden within the batteries of the devices by Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, and the Israeli military, then triggered remotely.

While the devices appear to have been physically modified, the incident highlights a security concern for electric vehicles. The vehicles have a number of safety systems to prevent the battery from catching fire, and the battery packs in the vehicles are much larger than any hand-held device. Those safety systems run on software that can be hacked. When large lithium-ion battery packs catch fire, the result can be anywhere between a smoldering fire lasting months or something more explosive.

Roy Fridman, CEO and chief revenue officer for C2A Security, an Israel-based cybersecurity company focused on the automotive industry, said that one automaker told him that the software that controls a motor has 2 million lines of code. And that’s just the motor.

“You have hundreds of millions of lines of code inside a vehicle. If you were talking about autonomous vehicles, it's even more. But the number of lines of codes in a vehicle is continuously growing,” Fridman told Just the News.

He said that in addition to the lines of code in the vehicle’s software there are also wireless connections to the internet for software updates, connections to charging infrastructure. ...

“The more communication protocols you have, the more lines of code you have, the more you are susceptible to controlling something that will trigger events that are … let's call it malicious,” Fridman said. ...
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