vDome: AI-Powered Keyless Car Theft Prevention – Real Time Protection
Due to the surge in keyless car theft, the benefits and convenience of keyless entry for consumers has morphed into a security risk and massive brand liability for OEMs. Using cyber-enabled techniques, today’s thieves can unlock and steal a premium vehicle from an owner’s driveway in 30 seconds.
Watch this video to discover how OEMs are using vDome to proactively prevent keyless car theft attacks before the engine ever starts.
FAQ
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What is keyless car theft?
Keyless car technology allows drivers to unlock and start their cars without physically inserting a key. While revolutionizing vehicle security and convenience, these systems have also introduced vulnerabilities that are being exploited by tech-savvy thieves. Keyless car theft techniques typically employ specialized devices, such as laptops and coding tools, to unlock and start vehicles in less than a minute. Examples of common keyless car theft techniques used today include CAN injection, OBD port hacking, key fob cloning, and relay attacks.
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Why are traditional anti-theft solutions ineffective in preventing keyless car theft?
Traditional anti-theft systems focus on engine immobilization, alarms and GPS tracking to deter potential thieves. While effective against mechanical theft, these measures cannot stop keyless techniques that exploit the connectivity, in-vehicle networks and software vulnerabilities in today’s vehicles. Mitigation of these types of theft techniques dictates the need for specialized tools based on cybersecurity expertise.
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What is the impact of keyless car theft on OEMs?
Keyless car theft has become a systemic risk for automotive manufacturers, affecting brand reputation, regulatory compliance, and long-term vehicle cybersecurity strategy. As keyless theft methods proliferate, vulnerabilities can affect entire vehicle platforms, creating negative publicity and eroding customer confidence and sales. In addition, OEMs that have not taken sufficient measures to protect their vehicles from keyless car theft techniques potentially face serious legal consequences. From a regulatory standpoint, OEMs are required to identify, mitigate, and manage cybersecurity risks (also relevant for keyless theft techniques) throughout the vehicle lifecycle.
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How long does it take to steal a car using keyless theft techniques?
Keyless car theft techniques rely on advanced technology rather than brute force. Their effectiveness can be attributed to the speed and silence of their execution. CAN injection and relay attacks, for example, allow thieves to unlock the car and start the engine and drive away in less than 30 seconds. In addition to their swiftness, keyless car theft techniques enable thieves to gain easy entry without causing damage to the vehicle, making such thefts difficult to detect through traditional means.
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How does vDome protect against keyless car theft?
PlaxidityX vDome acts as an embedded shield that prevents theft at the source. vDome is a comprehensive, AI-powered anti-theft service designed to actively protect vehicles from modern, highly sophisticated keyless theft techniques, such as CAN injections, key fob replications, and emulator attacks. Combining an in-vehicle agent with continuous cloud-based threat intelligence, the vDome system actively detects vehicle theft attempts in real-time, including unauthorized vehicle network manipulation (i.e., CAN injection) and unauthorized key fob registration (i.e., key cloning).