Why hack, when you can socially engineer your way in? And why even bother with social engineering, when you can just buy the access you want?
That appears to be the thinking of a least one Russian man, who the FBI arrested and who has been charged with attempting to pay a Tesla Gigafactory employee in Nevada to instal malware on the company’s network.
The Department of Justice announced the arrest on Tuesday, and Electrek reported Thursday that the company in question was indeed Tesla.
“This was a serious attack,” wrote Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Much appreciated. This was a serious attack.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 27, 2020 Read more…
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