Chinese Hackers Control Tesla's Brakes From 12 Miles Away
Hackers love exposing Tesla’s electronic weaknesses. Just this August, researchers showed how they could use jamming and spoofed signals to convince the Tesla Model S autopilot that real objects had disappeared or fake obstacles had appeared. A year before, researchers prized open a Tesla’s dash and attached computers to kill the car mid-drive. And today hackers from Tencent’s elite KEEN Team TISI +% hacker crew claimed to have demonstrated the first remote exploit of Elon Musk’s vehicles, making the potential for real-world attacks a little more realistic.
KEEN Team said it had informed Tesla’s security team of multiple vulnerabilities in the latest models running the most recent software. They will not be detailing the weaknesses in detail until the problems have been fixed (Tesla said the weaknesses have now been addressed in an update). The crew said the hacks worked on various versions of the Tesla Model S and believed they would work across all marques.
