A Russian citizen is accused of flying to America in a bid to bribe a Nevada company employee to infect their bosses' IT network with malware.
Egor Kriuchkov has been charged [PDF] with one count of conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer. He was nabbed by the Feds at Los Angeles airport and is behind bars awaiting trial.
It is claimed Kriuchkov, 27, was the point man of a plot to get data-stealing malware onto the network of an unspecified US company in Nevada and then use the lifted data to extort millions of dollars.
To do this, Kriuchkov and his associates back in Russia had recruited a worker at the business, it is claimed, and promised to pay $500,000 for placing the malware onto its network. ..
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