Russian man pleads guilty in US to offering Tesla employee $1 million to cripple electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada with ransomware and steal company secrets for extortion , prosecutors and court records said. In a case that cybersecurity experts called exceptional for the risks he took, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov pleaded guilty on Thursday in US District Court in Reno. His court-appointed federal public defender, Chris Frey, declined to comment on Friday. Prosecutors alleged that Kriuchkov acted on behalf of co-conspirators abroad and attempted to use face-to-face…

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