Thieves are now stealing cars via a headlight 'CAN injection'

TL;DR

ECUs throughout a modern vehicle communicate with each other. Much of a vehicle’s CAN bus systems will be found hidden deep inside a car, but since modern headlights are so smart these days, they require their own ECUs, which means they’re going to be wired into the whole car’s CAN bus system. Developing such a security system would take considerable time and effort from a vehicle manufacturer

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