Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool? A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Harsh Aaryan, Ce Zhou)

Summary by Cyber Security News16 Oct 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2610.21034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles (AVs) couple safety-critical perception to thermally constrained compute. Interfaces built for night perception and package thermal reliability were never engineered as confidentiality boundaries, and closing one such path leaves the other intact.

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