“Wikileaks’ most outrageous assertion was that CIA operatives could remotely assume control of a car to trigger a crash, offering a means, Wikipedia claims, of “nearly undetectable assassinations.””
https://www.autoblog.com/2017/03/09/cia-hack-car-wikileaks-assassination-surveillance-eavesdropping/
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“Wikileaks’ most outrageous assertion was that CIA operatives could remotely assume control of a car to trigger a crash, offering a means, Wikipedia claims, of “nearly undetectable assassinations.””
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I saw this demonstrated by security researchers at a DEFCON conference a few years ago. The researchers learned to hack newer Jeeps and showed that the researchers could take over similar cars remotely anywhere in the US. Live demos are the norm at DEFCON.
The attack went through the entertainment system. The Jeep spec said/says that the entertainment system console was isolated from the control networks, but the researchers observed that software fixes for the control system were delivered through a USB port on the entertainment console. So the researchers knew there had to be a network connection between the two (supposedly isolated) systems.
The researchers discovered how to access the control system via the entertainment console enabling remote control of the cars. They also demonstrated doing so remotely over the internet.
I assume a government agency such as the CIA or CCP spooks would have this capability.