Automobile Virus
SC Magazine is reporting on a virus that infects Lexus cars:
Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones. Landcruiser 100 models LX470 and LS430 have been discovered with infected operating systems that transfer within a range of 15 feet.
It seems that no one has done this yet, and the story is based on speculation that a cell phone can transfer a virus to the Lexus using Bluetooth. But it’s only a matter of time before something like this actually works.
Arik • February 2, 2005 8:57 AM
There are a lot of mitigating factors to a possible virus infection. I think that in order to infect a car you have to use a vulnerability of its operating system or an existing application, because a car would not normally run object code downloaded by Bluetooth.
An automated worm targeting a common OS would be more likely, IMHO