Two US hackers found Tesla security breaches to be awarded
Mar 26, 2019| Two young people in their 20s in the United States discovered a security hole in Tesla Model 3 in a hacking contest and successfully invaded the internal web browser of the electric car. Tesla gave the car as a prize and offered another $35,000 in prize money (the starting price for the Model 3).
The two hackers, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama, formed a hacking team, Flouroacetate, which made a big splash in the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest, which totaled $375,000. bonus.
According to the US technology blog Zero Day Initiative, Zhu and Karma found a JIT (just-in-time) vulnerability in the Model 3 web browser, allowing them to hack into the car's system and display it on the car dashboard display screen. Write a message.
In this three-day competition, Zhu and Karma also discovered vulnerabilities in Apple (188.74, -2.31, -1.21%) Safari and Microsoft Windows, which won a total of $375,000 in prizes. The total prize money is $545,000.