{"id":8605,"date":"2025-11-21T02:03:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/wind-farm-worker-sentenced-after-turning-turbines-into-a-secret-crypto-mine\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:03:31","slug":"wind-farm-worker-sentenced-after-turning-turbines-into-a-secret-crypto-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/wind-farm-worker-sentenced-after-turning-turbines-into-a-secret-crypto-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind farm worker sentenced after turning turbines into a secret crypto mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Wind farm worker sentenced after turning turbines into a secret crypto mine<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A technical manager at a Dutch wind farm operator has been sentenced after it was discovered he had secretly installed cryptocurrency mining rigs at two wind farm sites &#8211; just as the company was recovering from a ransomware attack.<\/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\/wind-farm-worker-sentenced-after-turning-turbines-into-a-secret-crypto-mine\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind farm worker sentenced after turning turbines into a secret crypto mine A technical manager at a Dutch wind farm operator has been sentenced after it was discovered he had secretly installed cryptocurrency mining rigs at two wind farm sites &#8211; just as the company was recovering from a ransomware attack. Read more in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,1784,54,155,164],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptomining","category-energy","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605"}],"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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}