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I've been following Marcus on Twitter for the last couple of years, and he's been sounding increasingly desperate lately. Regardless of whether he actually auth
by wrinkl3 7y ago
I've been following Marcus on Twitter for the last couple of years, and he's been sounding increasingly desperate lately. Regardless of whether he actually authored Kronos, I could easily see him taking the plea bargain as a way out.
I strongly feel that a malware researcher who stopped WannaCry and spends his free time making reverse engineering tutorials shouldn't go to prison because of a trojan he wrote as a teenager (assuming he really did write it).
- tptacek 7y agoHe's charged with a money-making scheme he ran into his early 20s.
- meowface 7y agoHe not only wrote the malware but personally sold it for $7000 per copy to botnet operators and other kinds of cybercriminals to facilitate bank account theft and fraud. He's changed now and is trying to be a force for good, but he definitely made mistakes in his past.