Russian citizen confessed to attempting to bribe Tesla employee for BTC – Bits Media

A citizen of Russia found himself guilty of conspiracy to hack the computer network Tesla in Nevada, whose employee he tried to bribe in BTC to spread the Monk virus.

According to the statement
US Department of Justice, Russian citizen Egor Kryuchkov found himself guilty of conspiracy in order to engage an employee of the company in Nevada in the scheme to introduce malware in the company's computer network. Although the name of the Ministry of Justice does not disclose the name of the company, Last summer it became known, that Kryuchkov was arrested
For a proposal to the Tesla electric car factory employee $1 million in bitcoins for installing a virus on a working computer.

According to the Ministry of Justice, The defendant made several trips from California to Nevada in August 2020 of the year, To persuade the company employee to promote a criminal conspiracy, Before the employee informed his employer about him, who notified the FBI.

“The FBR’s quick response and the FBI prevented the major theft of the company's data and allowed to stop the deployment of the extortion scheme for the root”, – Said the acting assistant to the Prosecutor General Nicholas McCaide (Nicholas McQuaid) From the criminal department of the Ministry of Justice. “This case emphasizes the importance of that, so that companies immediately apply to law enforcement agencies in such cases ".

Kryuchkov offered an employee of the company to a bribe in bitcoins for the distribution of malicious software in the computer network of the company. After installing the virus, hooks and his accomplices wanted to use it to steal data, and then planned to demand a ransom and threaten the publication of confidential information.

Kryuchkov found himself guilty of conspiracy in order to deliberately cause damage to a secure computer network. The verdict in the case will be issued by the court 10 May.