Disgruntled developer gets four-year sentence for revenge attack on employer’s network

Lu must also have known that one of the first places prosecutors would look for evidence would be his Internet searches. These revealed that he had “researched methods to escalate privileges, hide processes, and rapidly delete files, indicating an intent to obstruct efforts of his co-workers to resolve the system disruptions,” the Justice Department said.

By the time Lu was asked to hand over his company laptop in September 2019, he must have realized the game was up. His response was to delete the machine’s encrypted volumes while attempting to delete two projects plus Linux directories. According to Lu’s court indictment, he eventually admitted responsibility for the attack on October 7, 2019.

Lone wolves

It’s the attack every enterprise fears even more than hackers or a data breach: an insider with skills and knowledge who decides to go rogue.