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'WannaCry Hero' Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:48:12 +0000 (UTC)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7pad/marcus-hutchins-pleads-guilty-banking-malware-wannacry-hero By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Motherboard.vice.com April 19, 2019Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher known for helping stop the destructive WannaCry ransomware, plead guilty to hacking crimes on Friday.
Hutchins was accused of writing a banking malware called Kronos in 2014, after he finished high school. The researcher was arrested in Las Vegas after attending the hacker conference Def Con in 2017. Days later, he plead not guilty in a Milwaukee courtroom. He was scheduled to be tried this summer.
But on Friday, Hutchins plead guilty to two counts of hacking. According to the guilty plea, each of these counts carries a maximum sentence of 5 years, $250,000 in fines and up to 1 year of supervised release.
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