Article 2Y9P5 After Defcon, the FBI arrested the UK national who stopped Wannacry

After Defcon, the FBI arrested the UK national who stopped Wannacry

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Cory Doctorow
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Update: Here is the indictment. Hutchins is accused of making and selling a keylogger called the "Kronos banking trojan."

Marcus Hutchins is the 23 year old security researcher behind the @MalwareTechBlog Twitter account; he's the guy who figured out that the Wannacry worm had an accidental killswitch built in and then triggered it, stopping the ransomware epidemic in its tracks. (more")

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