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MalwareTech is now facing 10 years in prison. In 2017, Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero but in August the same year, MalwareTech was arrested by the FBI at Las Vegas airport when […]
Marcus Hutchins (MalwareTech), a malware analyst who helped stem the global Wannacry threat, said he had committed a crime of creating and distributing the famous Kronos bank malware and will be ready to issue a $ 30,000 bonus Monday. Hutchins, the 23-year-old working under the alias of MalwareTech on Twitter, who is famous and acclaimed […]
Short Bytes: UK-based hacker Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech, has been arrested by the FBI. He was visiting the US to take part in the annual DefCon and Blackhat conference in Las Vegas. According to the reports, this arrest has been made due to his alleged involvement in the creation and spreading of banking trojan Kronos. Notably, Hutchins found WannaCry […]
Short Bytes: Security researcher MalwareTech has created a live map that shows the attacks of Mirai botnet all around the world. Mirai botnet is responsible for one of the most powerful DDoS attacks ever seen in recent times. In a blog post, the researcher also stresses the need to replace default passwords of IoT devices […]