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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the insider-threats dept.

Russian tourist offered employee $1 million to cripple Tesla with malware:

Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory was the target of a concerted plot to cripple the company's network with malware, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday afternoon.

The plan's outline was divulged on Tuesday in a criminal complaint that accused a Russian man of offering $1 million to the employee of a Nevada company, identified only as "Company A," in exchange for the employee infecting the company's network. The employee reported the offer to Tesla and later worked with the FBI in a sting that involved him covertly recording face-to-face meetings discussing the proposal.

"The purpose of the conspiracy was to recruit an employee of a company to surreptitiously transmit malware provided by the coconspirators into the company's computer system, exfiltrate data from the company's network, and threaten to disclose the data online unless the company paid the coconspirators' ransom demand," prosecutors wrote in the complaint.

Was the Russian working for Ivan Vanko?


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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:44AM (2 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:44AM (#1043667)

    It's all about morals and ethics and what values you were raised with and hold. To some, "compete" has no rules or boundaries. "All's fair in love and war."

    The other day I was watching a Russian driving (crash) video that has subtitles and a crash involved a rare car that was produced by a Russian car startup that didn't make it. One of his comments was that there have been many failed car startups in Russia. I don't know much else, but that kind of environment leads to desperation.

    Hopefully Tesla, and everyone really, will take notice and try to be prepared for such attacks in the future.

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:28PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:28PM (#1043751) Journal

    "It's all about morals and ethics and what values you were raised with and hold. To some, "compete" has no rules or boundaries."

    Sounds like Microsoft!

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:56AM

      by RS3 (6367) on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:56AM (#1044077)

      Someone should write the book: "What the world would be like if everyone behaved with Microsoftian ethics".

      Oh, wait, nevermind.