Russian national, 27, pleads guilty to conspiracy to cause damage to computer, tried to extort Tesla

Russian national, 27, admits trying to steal data from Tesla to use for extortion: Elon Musk tweets ‘Crime and Punishment’ in Russian as sentencing looms Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, tried persuading a Tesla employee to help install malware on the company’s network to help steal company data Kriuchkov would’ve used data to extort the company … Read more

Russian national, 27, pleads guilty to conspiracy to cause damage to computer, tried to extort Tesla

Russian national, 27, admits trying to steal data from Tesla to use for extortion: Elon Musk tweets ‘Crime and Punishment’ in Russian as sentencing looms Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, tried persuading a Tesla employee to help install malware on the company’s network to help steal company data Kriuchkov would’ve used data to extort the company … Read more

Hackers used ransomware to extort $1.4m via UCSF networks

Hackers used ransomware to take over parts of UC San Francisco’s network and extorted $1.14million in exchange for returning access to their files University of California San Francisco lost control of some of its files in a hack Ransomware was used to encrypt files and UCSF agreed to pay for their return UCSF hasn’t said … Read more