Tesla Hack Team Wins $200K and a New Car

The report summarizes Day 1 of the Pwn2Own 2024 competition, where researchers discovered multiple zero-day vulnerabilities and demonstrated exploits against widely used products — notably a Tesla ECU integer overflow that earned Synacktiv a large cash prize and a vehicle, and Apple Safari, Chrome, and Edge exploits by other contestants. The piece highlights winners, prize amounts, and affected products; all discoveries were made and demonstrated in the contest setting with no indication of active, in-the-wild exploitation.