{"id":6344,"date":"2025-08-22T07:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/ex-developer-jailed-four-years-for-html\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:04:35","slug":"ex-developer-jailed-four-years-for-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/ex-developer-jailed-four-years-for-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Developer Jailed Four Years for Sabotaging Ohio Employer with Kill-Switch Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ex-Developer Jailed Four Years for Sabotaging Ohio Employer with Kill-Switch Malware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A 55-year-old Chinese national has been sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for sabotaging his former employer&#8217;s network with custom malware and deploying a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled.<br \/>\nDavis Lu, 55, of Houston, Texas, was convicted of causing intentional damage to protected computers in March 2025. He was arrested and<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/08\/ex-developer-jailed-four-years-for.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Developer Jailed Four Years for Sabotaging Ohio Employer with Kill-Switch Malware A 55-year-old Chinese national has been sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for sabotaging his former employer&#8217;s network with custom malware and deploying a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. Davis Lu, 55, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344"}],"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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}