Wait, do you trust this charging gun? Bypass authentication and inject data into all 7(!!) charging gun standards. ⛽⚡💉🚙😢

Security researchers Hetian Shi, Yi He, Shangru Song, Jianwei Zhuge, and Jian Mao from Beijing, China, shared their research on electric vehicles and the vulnerabilities that expose data ports in the EV charging process.

While the issue is known, the implementation details and scale of the attack (all seven major standards and 20 vendors tested) are impressive. I wonder if charging guns at public EV charging stations currently provide any indication of physical integrity.

Enjoy the paper, and maybe share it with the relevant people. I hope the knowledge we will help make our infrastructure more secure in the future.

More details:

Physical-Layer Signal Injection Attacks on EV Charging Ports: Bypassing Authentication via Electrical-Level Exploits [PDF]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16400