IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments

Ashley Liles altered blackmail emails in bid to make off with £300,000 in Bitcoin

A former IT security analyst at Oxford Biomedica has admitted, five years after the fact, to turning to the dark side – by hijacking a cyber attack against his own company in an attempt to divert any ransom payments to himself.…

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