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In the Pwn2Own Automotive first edition, competitors earned $1,323,750 by hacking Tesla twice and demonstrating 49 zero-day bugs in various electric car systems from January 24 to January 26.
Hackers targeted electric vehicle chargers, infotainment systems, and car operating systems during a contest organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) in Tokyo, Japan, at the Automotive World auto conference.
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Vendors have 90 days after a zero-day vulnerability is discovered and reported during Pwn2Own to fix it before Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative discloses it publicly.
Team Synacktiv won the Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 contest and received $450,000. Fuzzware.io got $177,500 and Midnight Blue/PHP Hooligans received $80,000.
Synacktiv hacked a Tesla car two times. On the first day, they found three vulnerabilities and gained root permissions on the Tesla Modem. On the second day, they demonstrated a Tesla Infotainment System sandbox escape using a two zero-day exploit chain.
They showed two different bug chains for the Ubiquiti Connect EV Station and the JuiceBox 40 Smart EV Charging Station. They also demonstrated a three-bug exploit for the Automotive Grade Linux OS.
Synactiv won the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 contest in March, earning $530,000 and a Tesla car for two exploit chains targeting its Gateway and Infotainment Unconfined Root.
Hackers won more than $1 million at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 by discovering 58 zero-day exploits and various bugs in consumer products, including Samsung Galaxy S23, printers, surveillance systems, and NAS devices.
ZDI announced that Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 will start on March 20th during CanSecWest 2024 Conference.
There will be a prize pool of more than $1,000,000 for finding vulnerabilities in software and automotive systems of Tesla Model 3 and Model S cars.
