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Apr 03 2026 Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot

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A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. [...]

Posted by Sergiu Gatlan on Fri 03 April 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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