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Hacking EVs And Level 3 Chargers Through 1920s Technology

22 Jul 2024 | Abstracted from New Atlas

"Power line communication (PLC) is a way of sending data through existing power cable...technology has been around since 1922...SwRI exploited vulnerabilities in the PLC layer which granted them access to the network key and the digital addresses of both the chargers and the vehicle using an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attack

"Level 3 hacks take everything to another level, giving would-be hackers the potential ability to inject code into the vehicle's firmware..."

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