VW board said to discuss two new N.A. plants for Scout, batteries

<p>VW's board is expected to approve a site in the U.S. to build its Scout brand, while discussions about a battery factory, likely in Canada, are ongoing.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...ica-plants

VW dealership in N.C. apologizes for racial slur on oil change stickers

<p>An investigation found the message was added by a teenager who entered the store after hours with a third-party cleaning crew and tampered with the sticker-printing machine.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/dealers/vw-deal...e-stickers

Hotwired: Lawyers not backing off their class-action suit against Hyundai, Kia

<p>Class-action attorneys say the software fix Hyundai and Kia offered to protect vehicles it sold without immobilizers does not solve the problem for consumers whose cars were already stolen.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...ay-damages

Waymo, Aurora seek joint exemption from federal rules for self-driving trucks

<p>The two companies are seeking a five-year exemption from Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations which address the required placement of warning devices.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report...on-request

Hackers Exploit Containerized Environments to Steal Proprietary Data and Software

A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL is targeting containerized environments to perpetrate theft of proprietary data and software.
"The attacker exploited a containerized workload and then leveraged it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account in order to steal proprietary software and credentials," Sysdig said in a new report.
The advanced cloud attack also entailed the

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/hacker...rized.html

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Raises Alarm Over Royal Ransomware's Deadly Capabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory about Royal ransomware, which emerged in the threat landscape last year.
"After gaining access to victims' networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of data before ultimately deploying the ransomware and encrypting the systems," CISA said.
The custom ransomware

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/us-cyb...alarm.html

Chinese Hackers Targeting European Entities with New MQsTTang Backdoor

The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor called MQsTTang as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that commenced in January 2023.
"Unlike most of the group's malware, MQsTTang doesn't seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects," ESET researcher Alexandre Côté Cyr said in a new report.
Attack chains

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/chines...opean.html

New Flaws in TPM 2.0 Library Pose Threat to Billions of IoT and Enterprise Devices

A pair of serious security defects has been disclosed in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification that could potentially lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation.
One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-1017, concerns an out-of-bounds write, while the other, CVE-2023-1018, is described as an out-of-bounds read. Credited with discovering and reporting the

https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/new-fl...hreat.html

Mike Keogh

Mike Keogh is chief financial officer for Ford Model e, effective October 2022. In this role, he leads the finance team responsible for financial planning, strategy, capital allocation and investment in building Model e.


https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia...keogh.html

Tesla Investor Day disappoints with details on affordable new car missing

<p>CEO Elon Musk and Tesla executives presented a broad plan to cut costs to create an affordable car at a Mexico plant but didn't provide enough detail on the actual vehicle to satisfy analysts.</p>

https://www.autonews.com/automakers-supp...vestor-day