Security News > 2020 > September > Russian Indicted for Attempting to Recruit Tesla Employee to Install Malware

A Russian national has been indicted in the United States for conspiring to recruit a Tesla employee to install malware onto the company's network.

The man, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, was arrested on August 22, when the U.S. Department of Justice announced that he had attempted to recruit an employee of a company in Nevada, offering them $1 million to install malware within the enterprise environment.

Kriuchkov told the employee that the malware would allow Kriuchkov and co-conspirators to exfiltrate data from the organization's network, and that the data would then be used to extort money from the company.

Kriuchkov arrived in the United States at the end of July and worked for several weeks to convince Tesla's employee to accept the payment for installing malware.

"The malware would purportedly provide Kriuchkov and his co-conspirators with access to the data within the computer 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," the DoJ explained.

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