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The plea agreement he signed says he was still selling malware until late 2015 at least, and was arrested in 2017. If he had turned over a new leaf, it wasnt fo
by zeraphim 7y ago
The plea agreement he signed says he was still selling malware until late 2015 at least, and was arrested in 2017. If he had turned over a new leaf, it wasnt for very long. I think he probably had stopped, but only because of the attention he received from the strings wannacry.exe thing.
- phaus 7y agoSo you're saying he continued to commit crimes up until May 2017? That's when WannaCry happened. His fame came on pretty quickly after that and it didn't take long for him to get arrested. Edit: The source code leaked at some point so its hard to tell when he stopped selling it based on available malware samples. New variants were detected at least as late as 2018. He was accused of selling it in 2014 and 2015 though, so there's a decent chance that he stopped a couple of years before his arrest.
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