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Russian Tourist Offered Employee $1 Million to Cripple Tesla with Malware

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 5, Insightful) by pkrasimirov on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:25AM (2 children)

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:25AM (#1043674)

    My guess it is really not a Russian-government attack, rather Russian-criminal. I mean Russian private-sector criminal.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @10:46AM (#1043710)

    To be more presize, Jew residing at former Soviet block private enterprize criminal.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @12:36PM (#1043717)

    Probably contracted by someone at the UAW...