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During the pwn2Own Hacking Contest 2023, held recently in the Canadian city of Vancouver, a group of specialists managed to hack into the systems of the Tesla Model 3 and they took 350 thousand dollars and a car!
Cybersecurity experts from The French company Synacktiv won this cash prize and a new Tesla Model 3 electric vehicle, after deciphering two vulnerabilities in that model’s subsystems.
The event is organized by Japanese security company Trend Micro’s Zero Day initiative, which works with vendors such as Tesla, Microsoft and Apple to develop hacking challengesso that they are solved by the participants and improved in terms of cybersecurity.
In the case of Tesla, it challenges offered with different degrees of difficulty and found that the easiest was accessing the car’s Bluetooth/Wi-Fi systems, while the hardest was trying to acquire Tesla’s Autopilot feature.
Synacktiv got its first victory after “hacking” the Gateway Power Management System in Model 3, managed to open the hood and doors of the car when it was in motion.
The second triumph of French society hackers was to corrupted Tesla infotainment systemafter finding a fault in the Bluetooth circuit.
The vulnerability allows intruders sufficient access to the vehicle’s controls, making it dangerous to drive, which the hackers were able to discover. penetrate Tesla Model 3 systems and as a prize they took one of these cars and $350,000.
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