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Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot

Friday, April 3, 2026 at 09:04 AM UTC·Source: BleepingComputer

Updated: Friday, April 3, 2026 at 01:53 PM UTC

Executive Summary

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. [...]

Analysis

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. [...]
Source Attribution

Originally published by BleepingComputer on Apr 3, 2026.

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