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Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot

  • Sergiu Gatlan--BleepingComputer
  • published date: 2026-04-03 09:04:54 UTC

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. [...]

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… [+2988 chars]