The bitcoin ransom wallets for WannaCry were just emptied today as well. What was the time difference between these two events? It seems possible that Hutchins could have had control of the wallets and fed seized the coins.
Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
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Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#172FYI, if you've committed any form of cybercrime in the previous 3 years (edit: the statute of limitations is 5 years for most federal computer crimes, as pointed out below), you should avoid such conferences in the US for exactly this reason. You probably aren't as smart as you think, and there may be a sealed arrest warrant for you. The FBI waits for these kinds of conferences to do exactly what they did here. Anoth…
It's actually 5 years and potentially more depending on the specifics.
Relevant information begins on the bottom of page 126/213 or 120 using the numbers printed on the pdf.
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/l...
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#173Why are people in this thread so outraged without knowing any of the facts? For all we know there might be a legitimate charge on which he was arrested. As per him being untraceable, if he was not read his rights then the FBI just jeopardized their own case. If no one knows where he is, it's more likely that it's what Marcus wants at the moment rather than what the FBI wants.
Why are people in this thread so outraged without knowing any of the facts? For all we know there might be a legitimate charge on which he was arrested.
Because US law enforcement have consciously chosen, over the past couple of decades, to engage in activities that make them "the bad guy". It's just abductive inference and a simple bayesian prior at this point. Nobody is reaching any absolute conclusions yet, but a highly plausible explanation, until such time as other facts become available, is over-reach / malicious behavior by the FBI and their cronies.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#174They're surprisingly clever, to arrest after DefCon. Typical stupid USA LEOs would arrest ASAP, so the unjust detention could be a cause célèbre hyped up by half the talks.
They may be trying to identify the real identity of the redacted co-conspirator and were cross checking suspects against who he met at DefCon.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because Las Vegas is in the US. DC/BH are just an excuse for security people to get a company paid trip.
Having just attended DEF CON, I can say that I didn't get that vibe at all. The people who were there were very serious about the whole point of it all. I got a lot of value out of it as well.
It looks like Berlin could be a better place for such type of event.
Re: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con
#176No 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.
Probably true for Blackhat, but I think you're way off the mark on Defcon. It's the highest quality conference I've ever attended, bar none.
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#177Indictment: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indic...
So there's another individual who was involved as well. I wonder if they've been detained as well.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 literally stopped WannaCry. Just because someone else could have stopped it, doesn't mean he didn't stop it. That's... just a fact...
You're mixing up could and would here.
This was inevitable because of how WannaCry was designed.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mitnick was actually a criminal. He was living off stolen credit cards.
Do you have a reference?
I mean. He he wrote a book about it. About how he used the identities of children who died while living across state lines because no record of death goes back to the originating state.
And how he used those identities and stole credit cards to survive being chased by the FBI.