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The Israeli Ministry of Defense has officially suspended the supply of Chinese electric vehicles from BYD to IDF officers due to concerns over data collection via embedded communication systems and sensors.

Ynetnews reported on this.

The ban came after numerous warnings from cybersecurity experts, who emphasized that Chinese vehicles could be used as tools for espionage.


Earlier, the Israeli Ministry of Defense had already received over 600 Chinese vehicles, including the MG ZS EV and Chery Tiggo 8 models, which were actively used as official transport for officers, even near the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Автомобіль BYD Atto 3. Фото: Hubert Berberich
BYD Atto 3 car. Photo credits: Hubert Berberich
However, the new BYD Atto 3 electric cars, which were planned to be assigned to IDF lieutenant colonels, were not put into operation after their electronics were checked.

To minimize the risk of information leakage, the e-Call system — the automatic emergency services communication feature — was forcibly disabled in the received vehicles.

However, experts believe that this is not enough. Dr. Harel Menashri, one of the founders of the cybersecurity department at the Israel Security Agency (Shabak), pointed out that Chinese cars should be considered mobile intelligence platforms capable of collecting audio, video, geolocation, and biometric data, and transmitting it to servers in China.
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https://militarnyi.com/en/news/chinese-electric-cars-in-israel-found-to-be-transmitting-data-to-china/#google_vignette

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The Israeli Ministry of Defense has officially suspended the supply of Chinese electric vehicles from BYD to IDF officers due to concerns over data collection via embedded communication systems and sensors.

Ynetnews reported on this.

The ban came after numerous warnings from cybersecurity experts, who emphasized that Chinese vehicles could be used as tools for espionage.


Earlier, the Israeli Ministry of Defense had already received over 600 Chinese vehicles, including the MG ZS EV and Chery Tiggo 8 models, which were actively used as official transport for officers, even near the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Автомобіль BYD Atto 3. Фото: Hubert Berberich
BYD Atto 3 car. Photo credits: Hubert Berberich
However, the new BYD Atto 3 electric cars, which were planned to be assigned to IDF lieutenant colonels, were not put into operation after their electronics were checked.

To minimize the risk of information leakage, the e-Call system — the automatic emergency services communication feature — was forcibly disabled in the received vehicles.

However, experts believe that this is not enough. Dr. Harel Menashri, one of the founders of the cybersecurity department at the Israel Security Agency (Shabak), pointed out that Chinese cars should be considered mobile intelligence platforms capable of collecting audio, video, geolocation, and biometric data, and transmitting it to servers in China.
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https://militarnyi.com/en/news/chinese-electric-cars-in-israel-found-to-be-transmitting-data-to-china/#google_vignette

Not news. I am disappointed Israel just got to know that! The Chinese are known to be that way and reason you will never find me doing Huawei, Jingbei, Geely et al

Another propaganda to just wreck BYD after it has successfully flawed Tesla in sales.

Now they want to blackmail the company like they did to Huawei!

Anyways, the world already into BYD!

No one is buying expensive inefficient and unreliable junks again!

China and Iran have really exposed the terrorists!

HacheNoire:
Another propaganda to just wreck BYD after it has successfully flawed Tesla in sales.

Now they want to blackmail the company like they did to Huawei!

Anyways, the world already into BYD!

No one is buying expensive inefficient and unreliable junks again!

China and Iran have really exposed the terrorists!

China and Iran? When did Iran start making electric cars?

Magnetic010:
China and Iran? When did Iran start making electric cars?

Iran exposed the expensive military junks!

Spy spy.

Those chinko people can be dangerous but I trust Israel and Trump to deal with them adequately

HacheNoire:
Iran exposed the expensive military junks!

Really? You do know that Iran's leaders have been killed by those “expensive junks”- it’s a war in wars, military equipment however expensive or advanced are bound to at some point be destroyed by humans because they were built by humans.

The USA has sent foot soldiers, set bomber jets and even hit targets in Iran tell me the last time any nation dared to send their fighter jets into America air space- they might not be all that but the world still fears them and that is the simple truth.

wahala these Chinese govt na bad guy, I love it

HacheNoire:
Iran exposed the expensive military junks!

Iran go dey laugh at this guy.

Nonsense.

Did they expect there'll be no feedback on the performance of a drivable computer?

Magnetic010:
China and Iran? When did Iran start making electric cars?

electric drones and bombs