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The Guardian has more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us https://www.theguardian.com
by samwillis 9y ago
The Guardian has more:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researche...
He may have a shady past:
According to an indictment released by the US Department of Justice, Hutchins is accused of having helped to spread and maintain the banking trojan Kronos between 2014 and 2015"
- tptacek 9y agoSince he's only been in custody for less than 24 hours, and CNN already has the indictment, presumably the DOJ had his case before a grand jury awhile ago. Which implies that they did not do this on a whim. Since CNN has the indictment, we'll all have it soon enough, and we'll get a look at the basis for the DOJ's claims.
- duskwuff 9y agoDate on the indictment says July 12th. So this has been cooking for a while.
- maxerickson 9y agoIndictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912520-Marcus-Hutchinson-Indictment.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912520-Marcus-Hutch...