Tesla Model S Hack Could Let Thieves Clone Key Fobs to Steal Cars

Despite having legitimate security measures set up to ensure the driving systems of its cars against digital attacks, a group of security researchers discovered an approach to remotely hack a Tesla Model S extravagance sedans in under two seconds.
Tesla Model S Hack Could Let Thieves Clone Key Fobs to Steal Cars



Yes, you heard that right.


A group of researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) gathering of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has demonstrated how it break the encryption used in Tesla's Model S wireless key fob.

With $600 in radio and registering gear that wirelessly read signals from an adjacent Tesla proprietor's fob, the group was ready to clone the key fob of Tesla's Model S, open the doors and head out the electric sports auto without a follow, as per Wired.

"Today it's easy for us to clone these key fobs in a matter of seconds," Lennert Wouters, one of the KU Leuven researchers, told Wired. "We can totally impersonate the key fob and open and drive the vehicle."

Also Read: Researchers Show How to Steal Tesla Car by Hacking into Owner's Smartphone.

Tesla's Key Fob Cloning Attack Takes Just 1.6 Seconds


Like most automotive keyless passage systems, Tesla Model S key fobs also work by sending an encoded code to an auto's radios to trigger it to open the doors, empowering the auto to start.

In any case, the KU Leuven researchers found that Tesla uses a keyless passage system worked by a producer called Pektron, which uses a frail 40-bit figure to scramble those key fob codes.

The researchers made a 6-terabyte table of all possible keys for any blend of code pairs, and afterward used a Yard Stick One radio, a Proxmark radio, and a Raspberry Pi scaled down PC, which cost about $600 total—not terrible for a Tesla Model S however—to catch the required two codes.

With that table and those two codes, the group says it can figure the right cryptographic key to spoof any key fob in just 1.6 seconds. To understand all the more plainly, you can watch the evidence of idea video demonstration which shows the hack in real life.

The group detailed the issue to Tesla last year, however the organization addressed it in June 2018 by overhauling the powerless encryption. Last month, the organization also included a discretionary PIN as an extra defense.

Tesla Paid $10,000 Bounty to the Researchers

After the story broke, Tesla was reprimanded on Twitter for using a frail figure, however an individual from the KU Leuven group acknowledged Tesla for rapidly responding to their report and settling the issue,, on the same time, accused other vehicle makers using keyless section tech from the same merchant and disregarding reports.

Tesla paid the KU Leuven group a $10,000 bounty and plans to add the researchers' names to its Hall of Fame.

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