Coretura, the truck-industry software venture, is promoting a software-defined vehicle operating system designed to let commercial trucks take feature updates and diagnostic improvements after they leave the plant, FreightWaves reported on 7 October. The model shifts more of the truck's value into over-the-air software, which changes the security picture for fleets: OTA channels become attack surface into the vehicle, while patchability — the counterweight — improves markedly versus today's flash-at-the-dealer model. The article covers the commercial case (residual value, uptime, fleet analytics) rather than any incident; no vulnerability, breach or exploitation is reported, so this is a technology-and-risk-profile item, not an incident. Australian heavy-vehicle fleets increasingly buy European-origin trucks with similar connected architectures, so telematics and OTA governance belong on fleet-security checklists.

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