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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @09:22AM (2 children)
Kalashnikov got some press a couple of years ago for their retro-styled electric prototype. Just looked and there hasn't been any news since. Either they quit (starting a car production line is very expensive) or have gone dark while trying to move the project forward?
At least some of the press suggested they had a very compact inverter, that makes me think they don't need Tesla technology, at least not on the power electronics side. Perhaps they are lacking battery tech? But batteries can be purchased, no real need to make your own until production volumes are high.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday August 29 2020, @03:26PM (1 child)
Yes, that was a joke. Nobody got it. Oh well...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @04:12PM
Hi there! It looks like you're trying to write a joke. Would you like help with that?