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Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2024

Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 Day 2 – Tesla hacked again

Researchers hacked the Tesla infotainment system and found 24 zero-days on day 2 of Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 hacking competition. White hat hackers from the Synacktiv Team (@Synacktiv) compromised the Tesla infotainment system on the second day of the Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 hacking competition. The bug hunters chained two vulnerabilities to hack the Tesla infotainment system, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2021

Tesla sues former employee for allegedly stealing sensitive docs

Tesla has accused a former employee, a software engineer, of downloading about 26,000 sensitive files and transferring them on his personal Dropbox On Saturday, Tesla sued the former employee Alex Khatilov for allegedly stealing 26,000 confidential documents, including trade secrets. The software engineer transferred the sensitive files to his personal Dropbox account. Khatilov stole files […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2020

Russian national indicted for attempting to recruit Tesla employee to install malware

US authorities have indicted a Russian national for conspiring to recruit a Tesla employee to install malware onto the company’s infrastructure. Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) has been indicted in the United States for conspiring to recruit a Tesla employee to install malware onto the company’s network. In August, US authorities arrested the Russian […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2020

Elon Musk confirms that Russian hackers tried to recruit Tesla employee to plant a malware

Elon Musk confirmed that Russian hackers attempted to recruit an employee to install malware into the network of electric car maker Tesla. Recently US authorities arrested the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a piece of malware. The man was arrested on August […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2019

Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3: Experts hacked Tesla 3 browser

Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Experts earned $35,000 and a Tesla Model 3 after hacking the vehicle’s web browser. Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3 – Hackers focused their efforts on car hacking, two teams participated in the competitions but only one of them reached the goal. The security experts Amat Cama and Richard Zhu of team […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2018

Researchers show how to clone Tesla S Key Fobs in a few seconds

Researchers demonstrated that it is possible to rapidly clone the wireless key fob of the expensive Tesla Model S and possibly other vehicles. The team of experts COSIC research group at the KU Leuven University in Belgium has devised a new relay attack against the Passive Keyless Entry and Start (PKES) system that is used by many cars […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2018

Hackers compromised a Tesla Internal Servers with a Cryptocurrency miner

Cloud security firm RedLock discovered that hackers have compromised the Tesla cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency. Tesla has confirmed that hackers have compromised its cloud computing platform to mine cryptocurrency, after the incident was discovered by cloud security firm RedLock. The hackers have breached the Tesla cloud servers and have installed a crypto currency […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2016

Hacking Tesla Model S, too much noise around a great research

Last week at the CeBIT the Lookout’s Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey talked about hacking Tesla Model S providing indications on possible countermeasures. Last week at the CeBIT conference held in Hanover, the Lookout’s Co-Founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey talked about hacking Tesla Model S providing indications on possible countermeasures. Unfortunately, many security professionals provided […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2016

Someone has pwned the Dridex botnet serving the Avira Antivirus

Unknowns have pwned the Dridex botnet and are using it to spread a legitimate copy of the Avira Antivirus software instead the malicious payload. This story is very intriguing, someone has hacked a portion of the dreaded Dridex botnet and replaced malicious links with references to installers for the Avira Antivirus. The Antivirus company denies […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2015

Tesla Motor sent a patch to fix flaws in its connected car

Tesla Motors Inc admitted to have sent an update to patch security vulnerabilities discovered by a couple of cyber security experts. Tesla Motors Inc has announced that it has distributed a software update to fix security vulnerabilities in the Tesla Model S sedan. According to the company an attacker by exploiting the flaw could take […]

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Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 Day 2 – Tesla hacked again

Tesla sues former employee for allegedly stealing sensitive docs

Russian national indicted for attempting to recruit Tesla employee to install malware

Elon Musk confirms that Russian hackers tried to recruit Tesla employee to plant a malware

Pwn2Own 2019 Day 3: Experts hacked Tesla 3 browser

Researchers show how to clone Tesla S Key Fobs in a few seconds

Hackers compromised a Tesla Internal Servers with a Cryptocurrency miner

Hacking Tesla Model S, too much noise around a great research

Someone has pwned the Dridex botnet serving the Avira Antivirus

Tesla Motor sent a patch to fix flaws in its connected car

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