FBI prevented ransomware attack by Russian hacker

The FBI foiled the plans of a 27-year-old Russian national (Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov) to hire a company employee to intercept secrets from the company that worked in Nevada.
She wanted to convince him to install malware on their network, then ask by the company under threat of leaking data that had been stolen from their systems.
Kriuchkov was arrested on August 22, 2020, in Los Angeles, after receiving a phone call from an FBI agent and trying to leave the United States.
"After contacting the FBI, Kriuchkov traveled the same night from Reno to Los Angeles," a news release from of Justice. Kriuchkov asked an acquaintance to buy him a plane ticket in an attempt to leave the country.'
According to court documents, Kriuchkov tried to persuade a company employee to install malware on the company's computer network via a USB drive or by using an email with a malicious attachment.
The malware would then provide Kriuchkov and his associates into the company's systems, allowing them to collect and steal sensitive documents, which could later be used as leverage to get the company to pay a ransom to avoid leaking the stolen her.
Kriuchkov was eventually charged with conspiracy and intentionally damaging a protected company computer, facing a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $ 250.000 fine.

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Written by Anastasis Vasileiadis

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