"Electric Scooters Can Be Hacked to Suddenly Accelerate or Brake"

A security flaw has been discovered in a popular electric scooter manufactured by China’s Segway-Ninebot, called the Xiaomi M365. Security researchers from Zimperium have revealed that hackers can exploit this flaw to manipulate the acceleration of the scooter, perform denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to lock a number of M365 scooters, and more. This article continues to discuss the security flaw contained by Xiaomi M365 electric scooters, what its exploitation could allow attackers to do, and responses to the discovery of this flaw.

The Verge reports "Electric Scooters Can Be Hacked to Suddenly Accelerate or Brake"