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Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - Ecks - 08-03-2017
A security researcher who in May stopped an outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware has been arrested and detained after attending the Def Con conference in Las Vegas. Marcus Hutchins, 23, a British national, was arrested at Las Vegas airport on Wednesday by US Marshals, several close friends confirmed. A friend told ZDNet/Motherboard that he was "was pulled by Marshals at the lounge" after clearing security. He was briefly detained in a federal facility in Nevada until he was moved. "We went to see him this morning and we had already been moved," said the friend. Hutchins is now understood to be in custody at an FBI field office in the state. Motherboard first broke the story on Thursday.
Update: A Motherboard reporter tweets, "Here's the indictment accusing @MalwareTechBlog of running the Kronos banking malware."
Update 2: New DOJ statement: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912820-MAN-CHARGED-for-HIS-ROLE-in-CREATING-the-KRONOS.html
Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 11, 2017, following a two-year long investigation, a federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Marcus Hutchins, also known as "Malwaretech," for his role in creating and distributing the Kronos banking Trojan.
Read More @ https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywp8k5/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us-after-def-con
Or @ http://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-outbreak-arrested-in-us/
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - Spore - 08-03-2017
the FBI could have requested that he be sent to the US a while ago, but instead waited for him to simply come to the US, and then arrest him after the convention, i guess they knew he would eventually come over, and was in no rush.
suppose we will just have to wait and hear the court's decision on it.
but there is that other person detained in the documents, so im not too sure what happened there.
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - mothered - 08-04-2017
(08-03-2017, 09:21 PM)Ecks Wrote: Update: A Motherboard reporter tweets, "Here's the indictment accusing @MalwareTechBlog of running the Kronos banking malware."
Update 2: New DOJ statement: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912820-MAN-CHARGED-for-HIS-ROLE-in-CREATING-the-KRONOS.html
And who knows what else he's been up to that either the authorities don't know about, or neglect to disclose at this point.
I'll be keeping an eye on this as news to comes to hand.
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - Oni - 08-04-2017
(08-04-2017, 06:23 AM)mothered Wrote:(08-03-2017, 09:21 PM)Ecks Wrote: Update: A Motherboard reporter tweets, "Here's the indictment accusing @MalwareTechBlog of running the Kronos banking malware."
Update 2: New DOJ statement: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912820-MAN-CHARGED-for-HIS-ROLE-in-CREATING-the-KRONOS.html
And who knows what else he's been up to that either the authorities don't know about, or neglect to disclose at this point.
I'll be keeping an eye on this as news to comes to hand.
I find it strange that he stopped WannaCry, but then had banking malware.
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - mothered - 08-04-2017
(08-04-2017, 07:14 AM)Oni Wrote: I find it strange that he stopped WannaCry, but then had banking malware.
Agree.
I'm just waiting (In anticipation) for other events of similar nature that he's found guilty of.
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - Asura - 08-04-2017
This was an interesting read. It made me think a bit however.
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - Skullmeat - 08-04-2017
Sometimes the good guys arent always good.
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - MaximumShadow - 08-20-2017
There have been some rather interesting updates on this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/08/06/marcus-hutchins-case-kronos-malware-not-hot-in-cybercrime/#3e7decdb6893
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/code-chunk-in-kronos-malware-used-long-before-malwaretech-published-it/
RE: Marcus Hutchins, AKA MalwareTech, Has Been Arrested - DarkMuse - 08-20-2017
(08-04-2017, 07:14 AM)Oni Wrote: I find it strange that he stopped WannaCry, but then had banking malware.
(08-04-2017, 01:34 PM)Skullmeat Wrote: Sometimes the good guys arent always good.
I wish people stopped choosing to see in black and white. There is no such thing as a white hat or black hat. Everyone single "hacker" is grey hat. Everyone conforms to their own morals and those morals never will align perfectly with each others.
This is how humanity works.
People have tried to conform morals via religion or pushing social norms but it won't work and it brings out extremity. While I don't agree with what he did, it was done nonetheless and he created the malware and exploited the issue(s). Instead of deciding if it was right or wrong, we should move forward and squash the bugs and the kinks.
So going back to my original statement, I don't really think it matters if it was right or wrong. There was an issue, it was exploitable, and we should fix it. He chose to go against what was socially unacceptable according to higher powers and now he will face the consequences.
It is what it is.