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In the US, hackers stole more 2000 liters of gas

Software problems have been known since 2015, and a script on the phone is enough to steal.

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On June 23, unidentified people arrived at the Marathon Gas filling station, located 15 minutes from downtown Detroit. About 13: 00, they got access to the refueling control system using the “remote device” and turned off the gasoline fee, writes TJournal.

In total, during the exploitation of the vulnerability, about a dozen cars passed through the gas station. The total amount of pumped gasoline was 600 gallons (about 2,3 thousand liters), and its cost is about 1800 dollars. However, the station workers for a long time could not stop the theft.

According to Aziz Avad, a gas station worker, an hour and a half after finding the problem, he stopped the supply of free fuel using the “emergency kit”. Prior to that, he could not cope with the system controlling the pumps: she did not respond to any commands.

The authors of Fox noted that on YouTube, you can freely find many instructions for obtaining free or very cheap gasoline by manipulating the filling software. TJ's inspection showed that for the query "free gas station hack" in a YouTube search, dozens of videos of "gasoline life hacks" were indeed displayed.

For the first time, the authors of the cybersecurity blog TrendMicro reported on security threats to modern gas stations. In 2015, they released a note stating that many gas station control systems could be easily found by searching through open network ports. Most of the systems discovered during the experiment were not even password protected.

Already in 2018, the possibility of manipulating the cost of gasoline at gas stations was confirmed by two Israeli computer security specialists. They created a script that ran from a mobile phone and allowed them to automatically change prices at gas stations. The connection was made via the web interface of the gas station management system.

The researchers noted that some gas stations are not directly connected to the Internet and are managed only through the company's internal networks. However, in this case, the attackers could get access to a detour: first get access to another gas station, then through it penetrate the internal network and only then control the flow at the “protected” gas station.

The owners of dozens of gas stations in the Russian Southern Federal District were suspected of using the "gasoline virus" in early 2018. They allegedly entered into an agreement with a resident of the Stavropol Territory, who created a program for underfilling gasoline while maintaining the price. It allowed the owners of gas stations to sell fuel to the side without loss for gas stations.

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