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Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme

Posted on March 10, 2025
Ex-Employee Found Guilty in Revenge Kill-Switch Scheme

Clandestine kill switch was designed to lock out other users if the developer’s account in the company’s Windows Active Directory was ever disabled.

​The original article found on darkreading Read More

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