10 October 2026 - 18:05

Category: Ransomware

Your infrastructure engineer hates you

An engineer got jailed for ransoming 3,284 of his employer's workstations via scheduled tasks. Just another Tuesday in IT privilege creep.

Your infrastructure engineer hates you. An engineer got jailed for ransoming 3,284 of his employer's workstations via scheduled tasks. Just another Tuesday in IT privilege creep.

Source: SecurityWeek

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Severity: High Mood: Frustrating

Here we go again, as an industrial firm watched 254 servers and 3,284 workstations get held hostage by their own infrastructure engineer demanding 20 bitcoin. Why do we even bother handing out unchecked domain controller keys when someone can simply schedule mass password wipes before lunch? To prevent your own staff from holding the estate to ransom like this, one might consider locking down domain controller permissions and monitoring rogue scheduled tasks, assuming anyone still possesses the will to audit admin privileges.

#InsiderThreat #AdminPrivilege
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