Marcus Hutchins erkänner att han skrivit malware och att han skapat the Kronos bank trojan.
Marcus Hutchins blev känd som den som stoppade Wannacry-utbrottet. Han greps kort därefter efter att ha deltagit vid en hackarkonferens i USA och anklagades för att ha skrivit en bank-trojan, Kronos. Hutchins förnekade då all inblandning men nu kommer ett erkännande, skriver Ars Technica.
“I regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes,” Hutchins wrote in a short post. “Having grown up, I’ve since been using the same skills that I misused several years ago for constructive purposes. I will continue to devote my time to keeping people safe from malware attacks.”
Hutchins was charged in August 2017 with creating Kronos, a banking trojan that stole online bank account passwords from infected computers. A superseding indictment filed 10 months later charged him with 10 felony counts that alleged he created a second piece of malware called UPAS Kit. Hutchins, whose online persona MalwareTech attracts more than 143,000 followers on Twitter, had a league of vocal defenders claiming the allegations were false.
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