The attack, foiled through the FBI, planned through a Russian citizen, showed unsealed court documents last week.
Elon Musk showed in a tweet that a Tesla plant worker in Nevada had been presented with $1 million and a down payment of 1 bitcoin to install the ransom software on Tesla’s PC network.
However, the worker did not execute the plan and instead alerted other Tesla staff members who contacted the FBI.The FBI arrested Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian, on August 22 in Los Angeles.Kriuchkov accused last week and faces the situation.five years in prison for his role in the scheme if convicted.
“This is a serious attack,” said Musk, who among the many high-level Twitter users who will be targeted by a Bitcoin-based scam in July, via the microblogging network, in reaction to a report through a Tesla specialist.
Bitcoin, despite its growing popularity, is one of the favorite tools of cybercriminals, as those affected have spent more than $140 million on ransomware operators over the past six years, according to the FBI.
Ransomware hackers, who encrypt their victims’ files before asking for bitcoins or other cryptocurrencies to unlock them, have stepped up their attacks on the coronavirus pandemic, Interpol reported in April as criminals benefited from an influx of remote workers. .
Tesla, which now has an impressive market capitalization of around $465 billion, the world’s largest automaker through prices in July after an accumulation of nearly six times in the price of its shares this year, driving Musk’s non-public fortunes beyond $100 billion.
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