Hackathon and security resilience evaluation of the level 1 concept: Outcome of the evaluation with the hackathon. Deliverable D3.4
report
Pollutant emissions of road vehicles have reduced significantly thanks to the development and
application of effective and often complex emissions control systems. Tampering of these systems by
vehicle owners leads to elevated tail-pipe emissions, up to uncontrolled levels of vehicles of decades
ago. Tampering poses a large environmental risk because a small share of tampering potentially can
lead to a significant increase of the EU fleet average emissions. A market assessment has shown that
tampering mainly targets environmental protection systems (EPS) of diesel engines as equipped in
heavy and light commercial vehicles, passenger cars, non-road mobile machinery and agricultural
vehicles. Tampering methods are classified into four main categories: emulators, ECU flashing, sensor
modification and OBD deletion devices.
The main objective of the DIAS project is to develop countermeasures to prevent or detect tampering
of environmental protection systems on-board of vehicles. Countermeasures are developed
consecutively at two levels: Level 1 enhanced OBD, Level 2 cloud-based adaptive diagnostics. How
tamperproof each level is, needs to be thoroughly tested by means of traditional pen(etration) testing,
but also by means of a hacking event by a team of independent experts, to search for possible
remaining vulnerabilities. This report provides an overview of the design and execution of the first
hacking event that was executed in the DIAS project to evaluate the prototype heavy-duty truck
employed with DIAS Level 1 countermeasures.
application of effective and often complex emissions control systems. Tampering of these systems by
vehicle owners leads to elevated tail-pipe emissions, up to uncontrolled levels of vehicles of decades
ago. Tampering poses a large environmental risk because a small share of tampering potentially can
lead to a significant increase of the EU fleet average emissions. A market assessment has shown that
tampering mainly targets environmental protection systems (EPS) of diesel engines as equipped in
heavy and light commercial vehicles, passenger cars, non-road mobile machinery and agricultural
vehicles. Tampering methods are classified into four main categories: emulators, ECU flashing, sensor
modification and OBD deletion devices.
The main objective of the DIAS project is to develop countermeasures to prevent or detect tampering
of environmental protection systems on-board of vehicles. Countermeasures are developed
consecutively at two levels: Level 1 enhanced OBD, Level 2 cloud-based adaptive diagnostics. How
tamperproof each level is, needs to be thoroughly tested by means of traditional pen(etration) testing,
but also by means of a hacking event by a team of independent experts, to search for possible
remaining vulnerabilities. This report provides an overview of the design and execution of the first
hacking event that was executed in the DIAS project to evaluate the prototype heavy-duty truck
employed with DIAS Level 1 countermeasures.
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35 p.