FBI Arrest WannaCry Kill Switch Creator in Vegas

It's surprising turn of events the FBI have arrested Marcus Hutchins. The WannaCry kill switch creator in Las Vegas for allegedly creating and distributing the Kronos malware to steal banking logins from victims’ computers. who goes by the name of Malware Tech, became well-known earlier this year when he managed to find a kill switch to the WannaCry cyberattack that targeted countries such as the U.K., the U.S., Russia, Spain, France and Taiwan after a flaw was exploited in Microsoft Windows.

He is a 23-year-old Hutchins discovered a kill switch for the malware after he registered a domain name used by the malware to prevent it spreading.
"""Marcus Hutchins … a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, was arrested in the United States on 2 August, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada, after a grand jury in the Eastern District of Wisconsin returned a six-count indictment against Hutchins for his role in creating and distributing the Kronos banking Trojan."""

Yesterday, it was reported that the WannaCry bitcoin ransom had been moved after a Twitter bot @actual_ransom, which was set up to monitor WannaCry’s bitcoin addresses, detected movement.

However, if found guilty, Hutchins could face up to 40 years in prison, according to one U.S. lawyer.
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