LiDAR Spoofing Meets the New-Gen: Capability Improvements, Broken Assumptions, and New Attack Strategies

Takami Sato

Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2024 · Day 3 · Physical-layer Attacks

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) technology stands as a cornerstone for precise, long-range 3D sensing, critically enabling the rapid advancement and deployment of autonomous driving (AD) systems. Its pivotal role in AD perception, however, also renders it a prime target for security research, with prior studies demonstrating that malicious laser attacks—known as **LiDAR spoofing**—can manipulate point clouds to induce both **false positives** (injecting non-existent objects) and **false negatives** (removing existing objects). This talk, "LiDAR Spoofing Meets the New-Gen," addresses significant research gaps in these prior efforts by conducting the first large-scale measurement study into LiDAR spoofing attack capabilities.