Elon Musk confirmed that the FBI prevented a cyberattack targeting the Tesla plant in Nevada. A Russian citizen offered a million dollars to an employee to introduce malware into the computer system, but he refused the money and alerted the authorities. US authorities have arrested a Russian citizen who attempted to extract data from the Tesla system and then blackmail the company. According to the FBI, 27-year-old Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov offered a Tesla employee the amount of one million dollars to inject malware into the computer system. The malware was developed to install so-called ransomware, software that can encrypt a victim's files in a short period of time in order to later demand a ransom for decryption. Via https://www.electrichunter.com/ev-news/tesla-plant-nevada-was-target-cyber-attack Comments are closed.
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