Investigation launched after discovery that Chinese supplier had remote access to vehicles’ control systems

Authorities in Denmark are urgently studying how to close an apparent security loophole in hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses that enables them to be remotely deactivated.

The investigation comes after transport authorities in Norway, where the Yutong buses are also in service, found that the Chinese supplier had remote access for software updates and diagnostics to the vehicles’ control systems – which could be exploited to affect buses while in transit

  • Tuukka R@piefed.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This will then mean that essential updates will be blocked.

    The problem is that the updates can contain anything, including an attack that activates for example at a specific time, several weeks after the update. And if you block the updates, well, you won’t have updates.