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Researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group at the KU Leuven university in Belgium have demonstrated that a Tesla Model X can be stolen in minutes by exploiting vulnerabilities in the car's keyless entry system. The attack method identified by the COSIC researchers targets the Tesla Model X key fob, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with the vehicle.
Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium found vulnerabilities in the keyless entry system of the Tesla Model X that would have allowed attackers to steal the $100,000 car within just a few minutes. The security bugs allowed taking full control of the key fob and of the car by remotely updating the Tesla Model X's BLE chip with specially crafted firmware.
Hundreds of Tesla Powerwall Backup Gateways may have been exposed to remote hacker attacks from the internet, but Tesla says it has taken steps to reduce risks. Tesla Powerwall is an energy storage product for homes that uses a battery to store power from solar panels or the grid, ensuring that users continue to have power even during an outage.
A Russian citizen accused of offering a Tesla employee $1 million to enable a ransomware attack at the electric car company's plant in Nevada denied wrongdoing Thursday before a federal magistrate judge. Kriuchkov, 26, also told U.S. Magistrate Judge Carla Baldwin that he knew the Russian government was aware of his case.
Tripp is the former Gigafactory technician who, after a brief stint at the Nevada facility in 2018, went to the press as a whistleblower with claims that defective battery packs in Tesla's Model 3 line of cars had become so much of a problem that Tesla was unable to meet the production target set by boss Elon Musk - 5,000 flash motors a week. Tripp countersued Tesla claiming defamation and false light.
A Russian national has been indicted in the United States for conspiring to recruit a Tesla employee to install malware onto the company's network. The man, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, was arrested on August 22, when the U.S. Department of Justice announced that he had attempted to recruit an employee of a company in Nevada, offering them $1 million to install malware within the enterprise environment.
Interesting story of a class break against the entire Tesla fleet.
Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has confirmed reports that the Tesla Gigafactory Nevada was a target of a cyberattack earlier in August, which was subsequently thwarted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tesla Gigafactory Nevada is a lithium-ion battery and electric vehicle factory near Reno, Nevada.
The failed attempt by Russian hackers to recruit an employee to install malware onto an enterprise network was targeting electric car maker Tesla, a tweet from Elon Musk confirms. According to the criminal complaint the DoJ made public earlier this week, Tesla's employee was approached by Kriuchkov in July, and the two met socially in early August, after Kriuchkov arrived in Nevada on a tourist visa.
Since COVID-19 cast its pall in March, the Agent Tesla remote-access trojan has exploited the pandemic and added a raft of functionality that has helped it dominate the enterprise threat scene. Though Agent Tesla first made a splash six years ago, it hasn't lost any momentum - in fact, it is featured in more attacks in the first half of 2020 compared to the infamous TrickBot or Emotet malware, according to SentinelOne's SentinelLabs.