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When API Security Fails, Mobility Breaks: Lessons from 2025’s Cyber Incidents

With just over three months left in 2025, one thing is already clear. One of the weakest links in connected mobility is APIs. Oversights that looked minor on…

LARA DOEL

Strategic Product Marketing
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

Warning: This car may contain vulnerable Software or Hardware

In many industries, there is growing demand for transparency in product processes and content. Companies are increasingly asked to detail the composition of their products…
SHACHAR AZRIEL

AutoThreat Product Manager & Team Lead
March 18, 2021
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

What Does a Magical God of Death Have to Do With Automotive Cybersecurity?

In a humorous play-on-words, CVE-2021-3156, nicknamed “Baron Samedit” by the researchers who discovered the vulnerability, paid homage to the folklore death god “Baron Samedi” and…
SHACHAR AZRIEL

AutoThreat Product Manager & Team Lead
February 2, 2021
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • VSOC

ISO/SAE 21434: Setting the Standard for Automotive Cybersecurity

Understanding the ISO/SAE 21434 draft standard and Upstream Security’s solutions for effective compliance in the realm of automotive cybersecurity. Why was this automotive SAE cybersecurity standard needed?…
FAY GOLDSTEIN

Communications Manager
May 3, 2020
  • Aftersales & Management
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

Upstream – $30M Series B for Shifting into High Gear

We launched Upstream in early 2017 with a mission to make connected vehicles safe and secure at a time when the automotive industry is seeing…
YOAV LEVY

CEO and Co-founder
October 21, 2019
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

How to Protect Against Telematics Server Attacks

Misconfigured reporting server gave hackers direct access to sensitive data In May 2018, a bug led to a major security threat affecting CalAmp, a telematics…
TEAM UPSTREAM
August 14, 2019
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence

How to Mitigate Keyless Entry Attacks

Hackers-Turned-Car-Thieves Exploit Keyless Entry Systems In 2019, hackers stole a BMW worth more than $100,000, without having to go to the trouble of breaking into…
TEAM UPSTREAM
July 29, 2019
  • Compliance
  • Cybersecurity
  • Threat Intelligence

Automotive Cyber Incidents in H1 2019 Already Surpass All of 2018

As the number of connected vehicles on the road increases, along with the use of smart mobility services, we see a continued growth in the…
TEAM UPSTREAM
July 12, 2019
  • Telematics-based insurance
  • Threat Intelligence
  • VSOC

How to Protect Against Remote Multi-Vehicle Attacks

Hacker Gains Access to Thousands of Cars Worldwide In April 2019, a hacker gained access to thousands of cars around the world via a location…
TEAM UPSTREAM
June 23, 2019
  • Cybersecurity
  • Telematics-based insurance
  • VSOC

How to Protect Against Hacks on Car Sharing Services?

100 Luxury Vehicles Stolen from Car2Go Back in April 2019, criminals accessed the Daimler Car2Go app to steal over 100 luxury vehicles in the Chicago…
TEAM UPSTREAM
June 19, 2019