Supply Chain Level 0: Grinding Tractors to a Halt – Sick Codes – ESW #281
Sick Codes hacked all four John Deere Telematics Gateway's, and the John Deere Gen4 Series Display. Without those, it's "just a tractor." However, this is Critical Infrastructure. In fact, without Tractors, Combines & Implements: farmers cannot plant, spray or harvest. No raw materials == no food & alcohol. You will see how long I persisted over multiple months, to gain access and was able to hack these devices to the absolute binary core, warts & all. What was the bounty? Source Code, Root File Systems, FPGA compiled binaries, the works. Agricultural Security is a serious issue. Multiple ransomware attacks last year showed exactly how destructive attacks on Food & Agriculture are, and how fragile the supply chain is.
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“Sick Codes” is an Australian hacker, who resides somewhere in Asia: I love 0days, emulation, open source, reverse engineering, standing up for other researchers & fast motorbikes. I have worked on many interesting projects over the last few years including hacking & emulating TV’s, cars, tractors, watches, ice cream machines, and more. My heart lies with Free Software but I like to go where no researcher has gone before. My works include Docker-OSX, which regularly trends on GitHub with 25k+ stars, 300k+ downloads. I’ve spoken 2x at DEF CON 29, DEF CON 30, published 30+ CVEs, and do consulting and contracting.
Sick Codes will be speaking DEF CON Main Stage at DEF CON 30 August 11-14th, and recently spoke at Hardwear.io about one of the most ignored, yet highly relied on, pieces of critical infrastructure; the food supply chain.
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