Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison
A Kansas City, Missouri man has been sentenced to 32 months in jail for crimes related to a ransom attack against his own company.
The DOJ has announced the sentencing of Daniel Rhyne. He had already pleaded guilty to ‘extortion in relation to a threat to cause damage to a protected computer’ and ‘intentional damage to a protected computer’.
Fifty-nine-year-old Rhyne had been a core infrastructure engineer at an industrial firm headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. The firm provides services to industries involved in aquaculture, biopharmaceuticals, chemistry, electronics, food and beverage, healthcare, hydrogen mobility, manufacturing and industrial processing, metals, oil and gas, and pulp and paper.
In November 2023, Rhyne placed scheduled tasks on the firm’s domain controller that would delete 13 domain administrator accounts; change passwords to 301 domain user accounts; change passwords to two local administrator accounts that would impact 254 servers; and change passwords to two...
Copyright of this story solely belongs to www.securityweek.com. To see the full text click HERE
