Blind Trailer Shouting

Name: Blind Trailer Shouting
Description: Semi-trailer trucks share public roads with millions of other vehicles. Their braking systems are safety-critical infrastructure — a compromised brake controller on a tanker trailer is not an abstract

Ben Gardiner

DEF CON 33 · Day 3 · Main Stage

Semi-trailer trucks share public roads with millions of other vehicles. Their braking systems are safety-critical infrastructure — a compromised brake controller on a tanker trailer is not an abstract

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Ben Gardiner demonstrates a blind, wireless, unauthenticated attack against commercial truck trailer brake ECUs using SDR-based J2497 powerline injection, predictable seed-key algorithms, and J2497 dynamic addressing abuse — safety-critical infrastructure research done properly.