Vehicles face 45% more attacks, four times more hackers

Security incidents affecting the automotive and mobility industries shot up nearly 50% in the first quarter of 2025.

Recent analysis from Upstream Security indicates an accelerating rate of cyber threats to vehicles and their manufacturers. Upstream researchers tracked 148 publicly disclosed incidents through the first few months of the year — a run rate that, should it continue, will well outpace the 409 incidents seen throughout the entirety of 2024. Even this, though, represents only a fraction of the total threat landscape affecting the industry.

“What’s published on the Clear Web is just the absolute tip of the iceberg,” warns Yaniv Maimon, vice president of cyber services at Upstream. “There’s also a lot of activity that happens in the deep and Dark Web that was not disclosed by the organizations who suffered the attacks. They don’t all disclose. So there’s plenty that we don’t know about.”

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