{"id":6607,"date":"2020-08-29T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T15:27:17","slug":"tesla-was-target-of-russian-ransomware-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/2020\/08\/29\/tesla-was-target-of-russian-ransomware-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Was Target of Russian Ransomware Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla was confirmed to be the target of a ransomware conspiracy by Russian hacker Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov(Muncaster 2020). He approached a Tesla worker and teamed up to deploy malware that can help steal sensitive data, the firm was required to pay up for lost information or risk it going public.<\/p>\n<p>The malware was deployed by the insider with network access, there was a separate DDoS attack made to distract Tesla&#8217;s IT Team. Kriuchkov first approached the Tesla employee via WhatsApp before meeting with them socially and offering a $1m to help with the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Kriuchkov had successful schemes before and had received over $4m payout from other corporations. This reinforces the importance of ransomware victims to refuse payout, as it leads to more leverage to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Muncaster, P. 2020. Tesla Was Target of Russian Ransomware Conspiracy.\u00a0 Retrieved from: https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/musk-tesla-target-russian\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Question: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>What type of screening does Tesla require for their employees? <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How can they better train their workers on social engineering and is there any incentive to be the &#8220;whistleblower&#8221;?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla was confirmed to be the target of a ransomware conspiracy by Russian hacker Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov(Muncaster 2020). He approached a Tesla worker and teamed up to deploy malware that can help steal sensitive data, the firm was required to pay up for lost information or risk it going public. The malware was deployed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14985,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6633,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec702fall2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}