A Cyber ​​Attack Technique That Can Confuse Traffic Has Been Discovered

A cyber security company based in the Netherlands ZolderThe founders of 's discovered a new cyber attack technique that can be used in at least 10 cities in the country. across the country traffic lights If this attack had been carried out by black hat hackers, huge traffic jams could have occurred in the Netherlands. Fortunately, cybersecurity researchers Rik van Duijn and Wesley Neelen state that their goal is simply curiosity. 

Bicycle paths have become important in many parts of the world. In fact, some countries, such as the Netherlands, have special systems that make things easier for cyclists. These systems, with mobile applications It integrates traffic lights for bicycles and determines both the most comfortable and fastest route for a cyclist to reach the specified route. Moreover, during this service, the lights used for bicycles turn green and vehicle traffic is stopped. Here are the founders of Zolder, the relationship between this mobile application and traffic lights. integration can disrupt They discovered that there was a security vulnerability.

Cyber ​​security researchers actively used in the Netherlands two applications They focused on. Researchers who reverse engineered these applications managed to make the traffic lights for bicycles turn green by imitating bicycles. Moreover, it was done reverse engineering operations realized that the same vulnerability existed in both applications.

According to the statements made by Rik van Duijn and Wesley Neelen, using these vulnerabilities to lock the traffic of 10 different cities in the Netherlands from anywhere in the world. possible. Stating that the same vulnerabilities may be found in the versions of the mobile applications in question in different countries, cyber security experts say that it is not enough to kill traffic in many countries of the world. it's not hard they express.

Dujin and Neelen stated that these mobile applications are being used as pilot applications in many parts of the Netherlands and are becoming more popular every day. has become widespread says. Expressing that they are curious about how the application works integrated with the country's traffic system and how the bicycles are transmitted to the main center, cyber security experts say that they are unlikely to encounter such a situation. what they didn't expect they express.

Cyber ​​security experts have identified the discovered vulnerability in the applications in question. developers They shared it with. Developers have started the necessary work to fix this security vulnerability. However, these vulnerabilities have not been exploited by other hackers to date. for innocent purposes Whether or not it was even used remains a mystery for now.