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Aug 21 2025 Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems

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A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer's Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. [...]

Posted by Lawrence Abrams on Thu 21 August 2025 in BleepingComputer.

Tags: Security, Legal.

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