Your comment just tells me that a modern 7 series BMW or a Cayenne is now prime candidate for a similar hack. Couple of weeks for motivated hackers and now they can steal a luxury car and ship it to Africa / Middle East ? Six digits payout for couple weeks of work + cost of LLM subscription.
Does anyone know if something like a McLaren or Ferrari have similar systems? I can easily imagine Lamborghini having something like this since they are under the VAG umbrella.
If the author's Subaru project[0] is anything to go by, some automakers have ability to remotely stop and start the car too. I don't see why you would dismiss this
High end luxury car lifts to order are sometimes literally that- a target car is tracked and when parked and left for some short period it gets lifted up into a truck with a Faraday cage and driven away.
Car alarms that go off are soon muffled, and any onlookers that turn see a group of high vis jacket workers, faux company logos, and a bunch of shrugging reactions to the alarm.
Now I am not sure if it makes any easier. I was aware of cars getting lifted and put into a shipping container in mere hours. My train of thought was that now you can remote unlock and remote start so that a threat actor can get in at night or even daylight and drive away. If you remove the owner's profile from the car through the API, you delay the response by some time while customer support + police get the necessary info to start tracking the car which is already in an aluminium lined container on a ship headed off to another continent.
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