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Marcus Hutchins, the British malware analyst who helped stop global Wannacry menace, is now facing four new charges related to malware he allegedly created and promoted it online to steal financial information.
Hutchins, the 24-year-old better known as MalwareTech, was arrested by the FBI last year as he was headed home to England from the DefCon conference in Las Vegas for his alleged role in creating and distributing Kronos between 2014 and 2015.
Kronos is a Banking Trojan designed to steal banking credentials and personal information from victims' computers, which was sold for $7,000 on Russian online forums, and the FBI accused Hutchins of writing and promoting it online, including via YouTube.
Hutchins pleaded not guilty at a court hearing in August 2017 in Milwaukee and release on $30,000 bail.
However, earlier this week, a revised superseding indictment [PDF] was filed with the Wisconsin Eastern District Court, under which Hutchins faces four new charges along with the six prior counts filed against him by the FBI a month before his arrest.
According to the new indictment, Hutchins created a second piece of malware, known as "UPAS Kit," and also lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) when he was arrested and questioned last year in Las Vegas.
[...] As the news on the revised indictment broke, Hutchins, who has repeatedly denied any illegal activity, called the charges "bullshit" and appealed to his Twitter followers for donations to cover legal costs.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @02:34PM (7 children)
JFC, has this site descended into pure conspiracy mongering? No evidence was planted, all that's going on here is that the DOJ making mountains out of molehills because the people involved are careerists and oversight has recently gone to shit.
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:30PM (4 children)
Far be it from me to be a calming influence instead of a troublemaker, but it occurs to me that these can easily be two very different ways to describe the same chicanery. It's not much of a stretch.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 10 2018, @03:56PM (3 children)
Exactly. Whether you call it "planted evidence," or "trumped up charges showing code he wrote while a minor" or whatever else - it's making something out of nothing that should be brought up in the first place.
I could have fought to get my access to eBay restored, but it just wasn't worth it - at all...
They're forcing this guy to play the lawyer game, which is just as productive as Global Thermonuclear War. [rottentomatoes.com]
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @05:37PM (2 children)
Hello? Words have meaning. Nobody plants weak evidence. Going to all that effort to fake something that, if it were real would barely matter?
I don't know if you are trying to save face or really are so labile that you'll grasp at anything to validate yourself. But whatever's going on with you, its not a serious analysis of the situation.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Sunday June 10 2018, @07:55PM (1 child)
Planting evidence, weak, strong, or nonexistent, is a tried and tested tool of manipulation and coercion, perhaps of the subject, perhaps using the subject only incidentally to influence someone else.
To say that "nobody" plants evidence that doesn't meet your high standards assumes that the only motive could be to have really great charges that stick as-is. However, this is only one of many motives for planting evidence, and probably not the most common one. The situation is not black and white, but has many shades of gray, in more than one dimension.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @09:04PM
JFC, talk about goalpost moving. The OPs whole schtick was about planted evidence (and some rambling unrelated story about himself). He's obviously off the deep-end of conspiracy fantasies. You have come along and enabled his delusions by saying "Well, maybe your totally bonkers bullshit isn't true, but this enormously different thing actually counts because they are both bad!" Please tell me you are doing that on purpose and don't actually believe a turtle and a whale are identical because they both breath air and live in the water.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @04:34PM (1 child)
The careerists are not the problem, it is the political transients. The careerists are the last line of defense. They're the ones telling cabinet secretaries, no, you actually cannot turn your siren on go get through rush hour traffic because you have a dinner reservation (and then get fired or reassigned for it). They're the ones that keep the administration in power honest to what the law actually is, which turns out to be VERY important for the current administration. The current administration considers them disloyal because they are the ones that are telling them "no, that is against the law", and they are a particularly important line of defense because the one body that is supposed to be the check and balance has refused to uphold the Constitution and actually do its job.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 10 2018, @05:43PM
Look, I agree with you in that the people you describe are the only ones holding the line against historic levels of corruption.
But those people are not careerists: [thefreedictionary.com]