Is your car a BYOD risk? Researchers demonstrate how

Bring your own device (BYOD) threats continue to expand, as researchers have demonstrated that even the car you drive to work can constitute an initial access vector into a corporate network.

At BSides NYC on Oct. 18, Threatlight chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder Tim Shipp detailed a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack chain that began in a parked car and ended in corporate Linux servers and ESXi hypervisors. Call it a BYOC — a  bring-your-own-car attack. And it required only a few cheap gadgets.

The key (pun intended) was the driver’s phone — using the car to reach the phone, then using the phone to reach the company’s network.

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