{"id":6355,"date":"2025-08-22T10:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/dev-gets-4-years-for-creating-kill-switch-on-ex-employers-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T10:04:14","slug":"dev-gets-4-years-for-creating-kill-switch-on-ex-employers-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/dev-gets-4-years-for-creating-kill-switch-on-ex-employers-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer&#8217;s systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer&#8217;s systems<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer&#8217;s Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Lawrence Abrams<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/dev-gets-4-years-for-creating-kill-switch-on-ex-employers-systems\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer&#8217;s systems A software developer has been sentenced to four years in prison for sabotaging his ex-employer&#8217;s Windows network with custom malware and a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled. [&#8230;] Lawrence Abrams Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,134,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-legal","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355"}],"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=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}