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UK's National Cyber Security Centre on MalwareTech's arrest: "We are aware of the situation. This is a law enforcement matter and it would be inappropriate to comment further." https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/893160214664445952
I'm curious what charges are being brought against him. For all we know, this detention is completely unrelated to WannaCry. We shall see.
> For all we know, this detention is completely unrelated to WannaCry. No everyone has already determined 'wow he did a good deed' and 'us law enforcement bad'. The fact is he is linked to this event and a person of interest who they want to get more info from. As such it makes total sense they would detain him for some questioning searches and so on. If you are someone who stops a crime you will also get questioned…
Yup. Law enforcement is not obliged to assume his innocence.
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I guess not everyone was happy that he stopped Wannacry. US agencies in particular.
This is utter nonsense. He didn't stop Wannacry. The Wannacry devs stopped Wannacry, if he didn't grab the domain it'd have been picked up by some other TI firm within minutes or hours.
This sends a clear message to the global whitehat security community: travel to the US at your own peril.
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This is utter nonsense. He didn't stop Wannacry. The Wannacry devs stopped Wannacry, if he didn't grab the domain it'd have been picked up by some other TI firm within minutes or hours.
I mean he had to notice that it was contacting that website, might not have been an obvious thing to look for.
Registering unregistered domains the malware connects to is a very obvious thing to do, in this case he got "lucky".
No good deed goes unpunished. But why is DefCon still in the US? I think the creators of the conference might want to seriously think about holding it somewhere that isn't so hostile to pretty much everyone who attends.
No good deed goes unpunished. But why is DefCon still in the US? I think the creators of the conference might want to seriously think about holding it somewhere that isn't so hostile to pretty much everyone who attends.
Because Las Vegas is in the US. DC/BH are just an excuse for security people to get a company paid trip.