Vehicle Security Research

In the field of vehicle security we focus on both in-vehicle and V2X communications. Regarding in-vehicle communications we focus on CAN networks. We implement synthetic and real life attacks against the CAN network to design and propely verify novel intrusion detection solutions. We also analyze the CAN data from a privacy point of view, including the potential for driver identification, location tracking and the inference of other sensitive information.

Regarding V2X, we focus on misbehavior detection: identifying whether a vehicle or infrastructure element spread bogus information (either maliciously owing to malfunction) We investigate both the technical (detection methods, short-term reaction, long-term reaction) and the economic incentive aspects (whether to participate in the detection) of a distributed misbehavior mitigation system.

Datasets

We would like to boost international cooperation and encourage other research groups to start working on the vehicle security topics. For this reason we release some of our collected data.

Each trace data contains a csv file with CAN messages captured during the drive. For each message the capture time is also recorded in a Unix timestamp. The trace data also contains a gps log of the drive where we had access to an additional recorder.

Short traces

Trace-2
Driving with a constant speed of 30km/h.
Trace-5
Driving with a constant speed of 60km/h.
Trace-12
Driving with a speed of 40km/h then lane change then stop.
Trace-13
Driving with a speed of 40km/h then slow down then an obsticle avoidance.
Trace-14
Emergency braking from 60 km/h to 0.
Trace-15
Emergency braking from 60 km/h to 0.
Trace-16
Driving with a speed of 50km/h then a intensive braking with a left turn.

Long traces

Trace-17
25 minutes drive from Normafa park to Kelenföld. (Including small streets and highway as well.)

Related third party datasets

Open Source Projects

The tools and scripts used for our research results are released on github to help other research institues reproduce and build on our results.

Own projects

CAN Log Infector
A python script to generate CAN logs with anomalies by modifying original messages.

Related third party projects

CAN Reverse Engineering by Brent Stone
Automated Payload Reverse Engineering Pipeline for the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol
opendbc by comma.ai
The project to democratize access to the decoder ring of your car.
Cabana by comma.ai
CAN visualizer and DBC maker.

Publications and presentations

Journal papers

A. Gazdag, Sz. Lestyán, M. Remeli, G. Ács, T. Holczer, G. Biczók - Privacy pitfalls of releasing in-vehicle network data - Vehicular Communications, 2023.
A. Gazdag, L. Buttyán, Zs. Szalay - Forensics aware lossless compression of CAN traffic logs - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 2017.
J. P. Hubaux, A. Kung, F. Kargl, Z. Ma, M. Raya, J. Freudiger, E. Schoch, T. Holczer, L. Buttyán, P. Papadimitratos - Secure vehicular communication systems: design and architecture - IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 11, November, 2008, pp. 100-109.
J. P. Hubaux, A. Kung, A. Held, G. Calandriello, T. V. Thong, B. Wiedersheim, E. Schoch, M. Müter, L. Buttyán, P. Papadimitratos, F. Kargl - Secure vehicular communication systems: implementation, performance, and research challenges - IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 11, November, 2008, pp. 110-118.

Conference and workshop papers

C. Ploeg, J. Sluis, S. Gerres, Sz. Novaczki, A. Wippelhauser, E. Nassor, J. Sevin, A. Gazdag, G. Biczók - SECREDAS: Safe and (Cyber-)Secure Cooperative and Automated Mobility - Proceedings of IFAC World Congress, 2023.
I. Chiscop, A. Gazdag, J. Bosman, G. Biczók - Detecting Message Modification Attacks on the CAN Bus with Temporal Convolutional Networks - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, 2021.
A. Gazdag, Gy. Lupták, L. Buttyán - Correlation-based Anomaly Detection for the CAN Bus - Euro-CYBERSEC, Nice, France, 2021.
A. Gazdag, Cs. Ferenczi, L. Buttyán - Development of a Man-in-the-Middle Attack Device for the CAN Bus - Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Information Technology and Data Science, 2020
M. Remeli, Sz. Lestyán, G. Ács, G. Biczók - Automatic Driver Identification from In-Vehicle Network Logs - 22th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), IEEE, 2019.
Sz. Lestyán, G. Ács, G. Biczók, Zs. Szalay - Extracting vehicle sensor signals from CAN logs for driver re-identification - 5th International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ICISSP 2019), SCITEPRESS, 2019, shortlisted for Best Student Paper Award.
A. Gazdag, D. Neubrandt, L. Buttyán, Zs. Szalay - Detection of Injection Attacks in Compressed CAN Traffic Logs - International Workshop on Cyber Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Held in Conjunction with ESORICS 2018, Springer, 2018.
A. Gazdag, T. Holczer, L. Buttyán, Zs. Szalay - Vehicular Can Traffic Based Microtracking for Accident Reconstruction - Vehicle and Automotive Engineering 2, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, 2018.
Zs. Szalay, L. Buttyán, A. Gazdag - Towards Efficient Compression of CAN Traffic Logs - 34th International Colloquium on Advanced Manufacturing and Repairing Technologies in Vehicle Industry: 17-19 May 2017, Visegrád, Hungary.
W. Whyte, A. Weimerskirch, T. Holczer, L. Buttyán - SLOW: A Practical Pseudonym Changing Scheme for Location Privacy in VANETs - Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, IEEE, IEEE, Tokyo, Japan, October 28-29, 2009, pp. 1-8.
I. Vajda, T. Holczer, L. Buttyán - On the Effectiveness of Changing Pseudonyms to Provide Location Privacy in VANETs - In Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS2007), Springer, Cambridge, UK, July 2-3, , 2007.
P. Papadimitratos, L. Buttyán, J. P. Hubaux, F. Kargl, A. Kung, M. Raya - Architecture for Secure and Private Vehicular Communications - Proceedings of the International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST), -, Sophia Antipolis, France, June 6-8, , 2007, pp. 1-6.
I. Vajda, T. Holczer, L. Buttyán - On the Effectiveness of Changing Pseudonyms to Provide Location Privacy in VANETs - In Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS2007), Springer, Cambridge, UK, July 2-3, , 2007.
T. Leinmueller, L. Buttyán, J. P. Hubaux, F. Kargl, P. Papadimitratos, M. Raya, E. Schoch - SEVECOM - Secure Vehicle Communication - IST Mobile Summit, June, 2006.

Featured Projects

SECREDAS - Product Security for Cross Domain Reliable Dependable Automated Systems (2018-2021)

SECREDAS consortium – 69 partners from 16 European countries – has kicked-off the 50 MEuro ECSEL Joint Undertaking research and innovation project, to build a reference architecture for Secure and Safe Automated systems compliant with the new GDPR Regulation. We focus on two main aspects within SECREDAS. First, we design and develop technologies securing the communication inside the vehicle (CAN bus) and between vehicle and other entities (V2X). Second, we analyze the privacy requirements of technological design patters used across SECREDAS system levels, and design a privacy-preserving external data release mechanism for various sensor data.

The SECREDAS project has been funded by the European Commission (H2020-ECSEL-2017, Grant Agreement no. 783119) and by the NRDI Office, Ministry of Innovation and Technology, Hungary.

VCG - Vehicle Cyber Guard (2016-2018)

The VCG project develops security measures for protecting modern vehicles from cyber attacks. Within the project, CrySyS Lab members work on forensic tools and methods for uncovering traces of cyber attacks on vehicles, including anomaly detection in the CAN traffic. We also work on determining the privacy risks of CAN data collection and on new privacy enhancing technologies that mitigate the identified risks. We also work, in collaboration with project partners, on a secure gateway platform that provides secure remote access to vehicles. Project partners: Evopro Innovation, Inventure.

SEVECOM - Secure Vehicular Communications (EU FP6 STREP, 2006-2008)

SeVeCom addressed security of future vehicle communication networks, including both the security and privacy of inter-vehicular and vehicle-infrastructure communication. Its objective was to define the security architecture of such networks, as well as to propose a roadmap for progressive deployment of security functions in these networks.

Contact

András Gazdag

BME, Department of Networked Systems and Services,
Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS Lab)
e-mail: agazdag (at) crysys.hu
tel: +36 1 463 2047