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Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 week ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. [...]

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 0 points 1 week ago

change the passwords for 13 domain admin accounts and 301 domain user accounts to "TheFr0zenCrew!".

That’s about the easiest password to brute force though, I don’t think he thought through the plot hardly at all.