the upstream team stated tuesday that as automakers introduce subscriptionbased services and features in future vehicles consumers may objectexperts from israeli cybersecurity firm upstream believe that early adopters of new digitized offerings from automakers may find methods to get around premium features by dishonestly manipulating the systems in their carsthe upstream team stated tuesday that as automakers introduce subscriptionbased services and features in future vehicles consumers may objectwith varied degrees of success automakers including bmw tesla volkswagen toyota and general motors have provided monthly subscriptions for services like heated seats global positioning systems audio streaming and remote keyless start features advt the auto industry is increasingly concerned about cybersecurity and as cars develop into digital platforms socalled white hat hackers or researchers who detect weaknesses and alert automakers and suppliers are finding issues sam curry a security specialist broke into reviver a business that sells digital license plates to fleets last year curry was given complete super administrative access to control every user account and vehicle owned by reviver his team managed to access the customer and staff data of bmw rollsroyce jaguarland rover mercedesbenz porsche ferrari and fordthis year upstream anticipates that black hat hackersthose who exploit vulnerabilities for malicious purposeswill concentrate on car fleets according to upstream 35 of automotive cybersecurity breaches in 2022 were caused by black hat hackers breaking into automakers telematics and application serversupstream recorded 268 publicly disclosed automotive cyberattacks in 2022 an increase from the 245 publicly disclosed events in 2021attacks are occurring more frequently gradually 230 occurrences were listed by upstream in 2020 196 in 2019 and 79 in 2018the company counted 1173 publicly documented cyberattacks relating to the auto industry between 2010 and 2022 advt also read auto lobby urges spain to speed up vehicle electrification as sales lagas elsewhere in europe spanish car production has been hampered in the past few years by semiconductor shortages temporary factory closures and supply chain bottlenecks after the 2020 global outbreak of the covid19 diseasesee more details etauto published on jan 25 2023 at 0455 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app cybersecurity firm upstream auto cybersecurity automakers global positioning systems remote keyless start features homenewsindustryconsumers may turn as hackers says an auto cybersecurity firm