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Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination | Software developer plans to appeal after admitting to planting malicious code.
Software developer plans to appeal after admitting to planting malicious code.
A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer's network, allegedly costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The US Department of Justice announced Friday that Davis Lu was convicted by a jury after "causing intentional damage to protected computers" reportedly owned by the Ohio- and Dublin-based power management company Eaton Corp. Additionally, the DOJ rooted through Lu's search history and found evidence 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."
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