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Dev gets 4 years for creating kill switch on ex-employer's systems
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August 23, 2025
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A software developer, Davis Lu, has been sentenced to four years in prison for deploying a kill switch and custom malware within the Windows production environment of a reportedly affected Ohio-based company.
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