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Russians trying to hack Tesla, among other misdeeds
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2020 Aug 29, 10:39am 425 views 2 comments
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Hircus
2020 Aug 29, 10:56am
Hircus
2020 Aug 29, 10:56am
Brd6 says
Smart man. He knew better that when it came time to get paid his million bucks, all he would have gotten was lead. Well, they probably wouldnt kill him, but I dont see any reason they would actually pay him. He hold no more cards once he sets the malware free for them.
Instead, the worker reported it to officials at Tesla, who alerted the FBI.
Smart man. He knew better that when it came time to get paid his million bucks, all he would have gotten was lead. Well, they probably wouldnt kill him, but I dont see any reason they would actually pay him. He hold no more cards once he sets the malware free for them.
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Booger
2020 Aug 29, 11:19am
Booger
2020 Aug 29, 11:19am
A million bucks might have been less than his Tesla stock options anyway.
A Russian man [on a tourist visa in US] approached a worker at the factory in July through the WhatsApp chat app, and offered him $1 million to install malware into Tesla’s internal network that would cause a distributed denial-of-service attack. While Tesla’s cybersecurity team was distracted by the DDoS attack, the malware would access corporate secrets that the hackers could hold for ransom. Instead, the worker reported it to officials at Tesla, who alerted the FBI. He reportedly pretended to go along with the plan and wore a wire during future meetings with the Russian man, who was arrested Aug. 22 in Los Angeles in an apparent attempt to flee the U.S.
In a tweet replying to the Teslarati report, Musk confirmed “This was a serious attack.”
The Teslarati report lines up with a criminal complaint filed Aug. 23 in U.S. District Court in Nevada that accused Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a Russian national, of attempting to recruit a worker to introduce malware at an unidentified company.