Theft Vulnerability Articles

Hyundai's Immobilizer Gap: The Engineering Decision That Made Millions of Cars Easy Targets — and What Actually Protects Them Now

Hyundai and Kia key-turn models shipped without factory immobilizers for over a decade. A working Burbank automotive security technician's breakdown of which models are affected, exactly how the USB bypass works, what Hyundai's software patch does — and does not — fix, and the only countermeasure that eliminates the vulnerability instead of just adding noise.