Tesla and FBI thwart $1 million Russian Ransomware hack
A Russian national was charged with one count of conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer.
Egor Igorevich Kriuchkovfrom about July 15, 2020 to about August 22, 2020, conspired with associates to recruit an employee of a company to introduce malware — i.e., malicious software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer system — into Tesla's computer network. The malware would supposedly provide Kriuchkov and his co-conspirators with access to the company’s system. After the malware was introduced, Kriuchkov and his co-conspirators would extract data from the network and then threaten to make the information public, unless the company paid their ransom demand.