Smart Megalopolises. How Safe and Reliable Is Your Data?

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Denis Legezo

Smart Megalopolises. How Safe and Reliable Is Your Data?

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Global Research and Analytics Team, Kaspersky Lab@Legezo

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Megalopolises are changing fast

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The plan for today

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Smart cities: Sensors' role

Reconnaissance: Vendors, locations, etc.

Sensors' functionality: Interfaces and data

Firmware: The Holy Grail of embedded

Automation: Let's send some bytes

Smart cities: Outside sensors

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Why cities need all this stuff?

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Why do cities have be smart?

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Investments

Staff

Infrastructure

Data centers

Operation center

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Raw data for planning

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…And for traffic management

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Possible to use for the traffic lights

Counting vehicles number and change timings

Counting pedestrians as well

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Radars are the source of such data

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The first phase

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Appearance is a great help

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..Any IDs you can get are also

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MACs

Names

Any IDs

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What we are gathering?

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Look, interfaces

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And a lots of data on-board

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What's inside the data?

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Vehicle type

Number of vehicles

Median speed

Station occupancy

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The Holy Grail

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Can we add some functions?

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Through interface

Debugger?

Commands?

What is format?

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Format looks like iHex or SREC

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But for which controller is it?

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LinkedIn isn't only for HR

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..but it happens anyway

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For me in a blackbox mode it looks like dead end

But does it means dead end at all?

Of course not!

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Even with the stock firmware..

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Reconnaissance first

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I started with script + C

Bluetooth tools

adb to get GPS from phone

C code for sending

What to send?

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Commands are partly known

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So we can automate

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Sensor will answer

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What about the small DDoS?

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Driving by, changing settings

Time: all traffic at night

Types: all traffic trucks

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Python + PostgreSQL seems better

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Resolve vendor and address offline

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What to do further and else?

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Side effects

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Gather Wi-Fi data and filter it with Postgres views

MACs can be anonymous

WEP is still alive

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Where is always place for fuzzing

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Where are undocumented commands

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So much other stuff

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...even speeding penalties

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Smart cities security perimeter if huge

So is the surface of attacks

Different authorities are in charge of the infrastructure

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...And tools

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What to apply?

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Change appearance and default names

Don't rely only on standard authentication

Cooperate with third-party researches

Think a little bit like malefactor or hire someone who can

I know embedded devices vendors with generous bug bounty program. Respect

Cities also could participate

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Summary

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Smart city infrastructure is visible due to ID

Kudos to vendor, firmware is strong

Automation is possible with change of any settings

Interesting side effects with wireless protocols

Go further!

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Denis Legezo

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Smart Megalopolises. How Safe and Reliable Is Your Data?