{"id":4640,"date":"2025-06-14T02:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/south-african-man-imprisoned-after-ransom-demand-against-his-former-employer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T02:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T02:03:35","slug":"south-african-man-imprisoned-after-ransom-demand-against-his-former-employer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/south-african-man-imprisoned-after-ransom-demand-against-his-former-employer\/","title":{"rendered":"South African man imprisoned after ransom demand against his former employer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    South African man imprisoned after ransom demand against his former employer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Lucky Erasmus and a company insider installed software without authorisation on Ecentric&#8217;s systems which granted them remote access, enabling them to steal sensitive data and make unauthorised changes to senior managers&#8217; passwords.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/south-african-man-imprisoned-after-ransom-demand-against-his-former-employer\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African man imprisoned after ransom demand against his former employer Lucky Erasmus and a company insider installed software without authorisation on Ecentric&#8217;s systems which granted them remote access, enabling them to steal sensitive data and make unauthorised changes to senior managers&#8217; passwords. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368,156,54,155,659,164,486],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backdoor","category-data-breach","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-insider-threat","category-law-order","category-security-threats","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"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=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}