Posted on 08/27/2020 7:29:22 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
This Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a Russian citizen accused of conspiring to breach the network of a US company and introduce malware to compromise the said company’s networks. Media reports about the incident have identified the US company to be electric car maker Tesla.
...the fact that Kriuchkov approached a Russian-speaking, non-US citizen working at Gigafactory Nevada suggests that the team behind the cyberattack attempt has done their research well.
During their “business” meeting, Kriuchkov revealed his hand. The plan involved the Tesla employee inserting malware provided by Kriuchkov and his associates to the electric car maker’s systems. After the malware is inserted, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack would occur that could allow the hackers to occupy the Tesla information security team. The malware would also allow the hackers to extract corporate and network data, which would be held ransom until the electric car maker pays up. For his participation in the ploy, the Gigafactory Nevada employee would receive $500,000, later raised to $1 million, to be paid in cash or bitcoin.
Unfortunately for Kriuchkov and his team, the Giga Nevada employee actually reported the planned cybersecurity attack on Tesla, which, in turn, contacted the FBI.
Behind the scenes, the FBI was able to get in touch with the hacker, who, in turn, drove overnight from Reno, Nevada to Los Angeles in what appeared to be an attempt to flee the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at teslarati.com ...
And if you have two nickles to rub together, they will be thick as flies.
Very cool!
I wonder how many they didn’t catch.
Wow
Elon better give than loyal Anerican employee a bonus.
Which means he drove south on Hwy 395 within a half mile of my house.
Interesting news right before the stock split tomorrow
Interesting news right before the stock split tomorrow
Why is tesla employing Non US Citizens?
I am glad this one did the right thing, but it sounds like it could have been a risk.
I am pretty sure there are a bunch of Chinese non citizens working there who are possibly also working for that govt.
You cannot tell me that H1B visas are necessary because i know they are not
It seems the person is a non US citizen that did the right thing. That’s nice
Russian speaking Chinese H1Bs?
If they had to spend the time and the money to seek out a (potentially) sympathizing Russian instead of trying to breach the firewall also speaks volumes about the Cybersecurity measures that Tesla *does* have in place. Musk may be nuts, be he knows what he is doing.
“Musk may be nuts, be he knows what he is doing.”
Just nutty, not totally nuts?
and I won’t ask about his kid’s name.
Seems to me the employee is an American in the making. Acts like this do not go unnoticed in a company with a single leader at the helm and in the greater business environment. The employees career path has dramatically improved. I met the guy who blew the whistle on the Navy’s 150,000 hammers and all the fraud at Electric Boat a while back. He is Chairman of the Board for a half dozen companies and buys companies to turn them around and resell the newly viable enterprises. For some “strange” reason banks seem to trust him and extend credit easily for his ventures and stakeholders seem to trust that he will be a good steward of their companies.
I wonder what tipped him off and he decided to skip town immediately.....
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