Scenes from the 2023 Automotive News Congress

<p>The theme of this year's Congress is "Investing in Innovation" and features keynotes from top executives at Hyundai, GM and Ford.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/world-congress/...ess-photos

Jeep debuts new Grand Wagoneer L spot with Derek and Hannah Jeter

<p>The campaign is the latest in a run of new Jeep spots as the brand works to regain sales momentum in the U.S. for its marquee nameplates.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/marketing/see-l...erek-jeter

Industry needs Treasury guidance on Inflation Reduction Act's EV sourcing rules, exe

<p>The U.S. Treasury Department should issue guidance on which vehicles will be eligible for EV tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act's "foreign entity of concern" provision as soon as possible to give automakers, suppliers, dealers and consumers needed clarity, industry executives said.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/world-congress/...-uncertain

Ford's Galhotra predicts F-150 could become top-selling hybrid

<p>Galhotra also said the company has drastically reduced the number of buildable combinations on the 2024 F-150, which is being unveiled Tuesday evening.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/world-congress/...ing-hybrid

GM's Reuss says company has laid groundwork for profitable EVs

<p>The company will benefit from taking the time to design EVs from the ground up instead of retrofitting batteries into existing gasoline vehicles, Reuss said.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/world-congress/...-potential

Beware: MetaStealer Malware Targets Apple macOS in Recent Attacks

A new information stealer malware called MetaStealer has set its sights on Apple macOS, making the latest in a growing list of stealer families focused on the operating system after MacStealer, Pureland, Atomic Stealer, and Realst.
"Threat actors are proactively targeting macOS businesses by posing as fake clients in order to socially engineer victims into launching malicious payloads,"

https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/beware...rgets.html

Sophisticated Phishing Campaign Deploying Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and RedLine Cli

A sophisticated phishing campaign is using a Microsoft Word document lure to distribute a trifecta of threats, namely Agent Tesla, OriginBotnet, and RedLine Clipper, to gather a wide range of information from compromised Windows machines.
"A phishing email delivers the Word document as an attachment, presenting a deliberately blurred image and a counterfeit reCAPTCHA to lure the recipient into

https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/sophis...paign.html

Critical GitHub Vulnerability Exposes 4,000+ Repositories to Repojacking Attack

A new vulnerability disclosed in GitHub could have exposed thousands of repositories at risk of repojacking attacks, new findings show.
The flaw "could allow an attacker to exploit a race condition within GitHub's repository creation and username renaming operations," Checkmarx security researcher Elad Rapoport said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News.
"Successful exploitation of

https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/critic...poses.html

Mozilla Rushes to Patch WebP Critical Zero-Day Exploit in Firefox and Thunderbird

Mozilla on Tuesday released security updates to resolve a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild, a day after Google released a fix for the issue in its Chrome browser.
The shortcoming, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-4863, is a heap buffer overflow flaw in the WebP image format that could result in arbitrary code execution when

https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/mozill...tical.html

Update Adobe Acrobat and Reader to Patch Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Adobe's Patch Tuesday update for September 2023 comes with a patch for a critical actively exploited security flaw in Acrobat and Reader that could permit an attacker to execute malicious code on susceptible systems.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26369, is rated 7.8 for severity on the CVSS scoring system and impacts both Windows and macOS versions of Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader DC,

https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/update...er-to.html