https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/marcus-hutchins-malware.html
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: 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]