{"id":905038,"date":"2026-05-11T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/man-admits-to-locking-thousands-of-windows-devices-in-extortion-plot\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:12:25","slug":"man-admits-to-locking-thousands-of-windows-devices-in-extortion-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/man-admits-to-locking-thousands-of-windows-devices-in-extortion-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/man-admits-to-extortion-plot-locking-coworkers-out-of-thousands-of-windows-devices\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Sergiu Gatlan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4207,44203,192],"tags":[5835,19345],"class_list":{"0":"post-905038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-admits","8":"category-locking","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-admits","11":"tag-locking"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}