{"id":2485,"date":"2025-03-10T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ex-employee-guilty-revenge-kill-switch-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:21:08","slug":"ex-employee-guilty-revenge-kill-switch-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/ex-employee-guilty-revenge-kill-switch-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Clandestine kill switch was designed to lock out other users if the developer&#8217;s account in the company&#8217;s Windows Active Directory was ever disabled.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cyberattacks-data-breaches\/ex-employee-guilty-revenge-kill-switch-scheme\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme Clandestine kill switch was designed to lock out other users if the developer&#8217;s account in the company&#8217;s Windows Active Directory was ever disabled. Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}