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On Wednesday, 22-year-old Marcus Hutchins -- also known as MalwareTech -- was arrested in Las Vegas for "his role in creating and distributing the Kronos banking Trojan," according to a spokesperson from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The charges relate to alleged conduct occurring between July 2014 and July 2015.
According to an indictment provided to CNN Tech, Hutchins created the malware and shared it online.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/03/technology/culture/malwarete...
> "I've spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no record of Marcus being in the system. At this point we've been trying to get in contact with Marcus for 18 hours and nobody knows where he's been taken," the person added. "We still don't know why Marcus has been arrested and now we have no idea where in the US he's been taken to and we're extremely concerned for his welfare." What the hell? How does s…
He's at the FBI field office in Las Vegas: https://twitter.com/MabbsSec/status/893166585736724481
"Hutchins, who is indicted with another un-named co-defendant, stands accused of six counts of hacking-related crimes as a result of his alleged involvement with Kronos. “Defendent Marcus Hutchins created the Kronos malware,”"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researche...
This sends a clear message to the global whitehat security community: travel to the US at your own peril.
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In Iran and NK detention without rights is an institutionalized practice. In US if you deny them a phone call immediately, you just threw away your own case.
The patriot act (amazing name) invalidated that statement. Not sure if it applies in this specific case.
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The Guardian has more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/03/researche... He may have a shady past: According to an indictment released by the US Department of Justice, Hutchins is accused of having helped to spread and maintain the banking trojan Kronos between 2014 and 2015"
Since CNN has the indictment, we'll all have it soon enough, and we'll get a look at the basis for the DOJ's claims.
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So where is he? It surely can't be secret, regardless of who arrested him?
They would need to ask the FBI, not the Marshals.
It sounds like he was arrested in Henderson (a suburb of Vegas), kept overnight in that city's detention facility, then brought to the Las Vegas FBI field office today. He will probably see a judge for a detention hearing today or tomorrow, and if he is not granted bail will then be put in jail at the Clark County Detention Center in downtown Las Vegas, at which time he will be in the custody of US Marshals.
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Many, many countries are brutal, totalitarian dictatorships. Doesn't mean we have an excuse to sink to their level. I couldn't imagine this story coming from, say, Germany or Sweden.
Pretty sure Sweden has a certain Australian that, according to many on this site, they've been very unfair to.
I like how this malware writer/researcher claims he "found" the address and "miraculously saved" everyone by grabbing the domain. Not sure why everyone says he isn't the malware writer. What proof do you have that he didn't write it? Maybe he left a trail that you missed.
An extraordinary claim requires an extraordinary proof.
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It's not clear to me why he should've expected arrest. He didn't write the virus, he shut it down. The arrest makes no sense. It's not a reasonable thing to have expected. I was at DEF CON too, for what it's worth.
There's almost zero chance that he was arrested for stopping Wannacry. I'd guess a 23-year old in that business has a history of "less-than-white-hat" activities...