(RTTNews) – Elon Musk, chief executive of automaker Tesla, Inc., showed reports that Tesla is an unidentified U.S. company in an ad through the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) about a foiled cyberattack.
Musk tweeted, “It’s a serious attack.” The tweet in reaction to an article on Tesla’s news website, Teslarati, which showed the company was the target.
According to the Justice Department, an organization led by Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, a 27-year-old Russian citizen, is accused of conspiring to breach the computer network of an unidentified U.S. company and introduce malware that will allow it to exfiltrate the company’s knowledge. Network. They would then threaten to disclose knowledge online unless the company paid the conspirators their ransom demand.
Kriuchkov contacted a Russian-speaking worker of the Tesla’s “Gigafactory in Nevada” and presented him with a $1 million bitcoin reward to install the malware on Tesla’s PC network, according to Teslarati. Kriuchkov used his WhatsApp account to make the first contact.
Kriuchkov was charged with a charge of “conspiracy to deliberately cause damage to a computer.” The complaint was filed through the FBI in U.S. District Court. For the Nevada District.
Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada is a subset of lithium-ion batteries and electric cars near Reno, Nevada. The facility is owned by Tesla and is operated through it to obtain battery packs for its electric cars and desk garage systems.