Security News > 2024 > August > Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
2024-08-28 21:19
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot targeting his employer. [...]
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