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 Posted: 19:12 - 03 Aug 2017  Post subject: Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Detained |
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| Quote: | On Wednesday, US authorities detained a researcher who goes by the handle MalwareTech, best known for stopping the spread of the WannaCry ransomware virus.
In May, WannaCry infected hospitals in the UK, a Spanish telecommunications company, and other targets in Russia, Turkey, Germany, Vietnam, and more. Marcus Hutchins, a researcher from cybersecurity firm Kryptos Logic, inadvertently stopped WannaCry in its tracks by registering a specific website domain included in the malware's code.
At the time of writing it is not clear what charges, if any, Hutchins may face.
Motherboard verified that a detainee called Marcus Hutchins, 23, was being held at the Henderson Detention Center in Nevada early on Thursday. A few hours after, Hutchins was moved to another facility, according to a close personal friend.
The friend told Motherboard they "tried to visit him as soon as the detention centre opened but he had already been transferred out." Motherboard granted the source anonymity due to privacy concerns.
"I've spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no record of Marcus being in the system. At this point we've been trying to get in contact with Marcus for 18 hours and nobody knows where he's been taken," the person added. "We still don't know why Marcus has been arrested and now we have no idea where in the US he's been taken to and we're extremely concerned for his welfare."
A US Marshals spokesperson told Motherboard in an email, "my colleague in Las Vegas says this was an FBI arrest. Mr. Hutchins is not in U.S. Marshals custody."
The FBI acknowledged a request for comment but did not provide one in time for publication.
Shortly before his arrest, Hutchins was in Las Vegas during Black Hat and Def Con, two annual hacking conferences.
"We are aware a UK national has been arrested but it's a matter for the authorities in the US," a spokesperson for the UK's National Crime Agency told Motherboard in an email.
A spokesperson from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre told Motherboard in an email, "We are aware of the situation. This is a law enforcement matter and it would be inappropriate to comment further."
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywp8k5/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us-after-def-con
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40820837
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Is he dead yet, or no longer exists. Maybe we'll see in a yankee news artificial that he hacked into the White House, NSA, CIA, FBI, ETC, using the username: username and the password: password  |
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| M.C wrote: | AFAIK he looked at the code, saw the domain, registered the domain and that stopped the attack. Not sure any of that makes you 007, or even Johnny English. |
It was the emergency stop button. If the virus spreader decided it was getting out of hand, they needed to setup the domain with a DNS entry. If this domain was contactable to the virus, the virus would not start encrypting and would not attempt to spread.
It was such a random alpha numeric name, that the writer wrongly assumed nobody else would register it.
It wasn't really rocket science, but for one reason or another, he pulled the emergency stop.
I can remember a big virus outbreak in the early 90's. I think they labelled it "the killer from Manilla" on the news. We saw the first case at around 9.15AM and quarantined the laptop. By 10AM we knew all about the virus writer. It seemed he was quite proud of his achievements.
That wasn't rocket science either. If you opened the virus file in a text editor, (we just used Notepad), there was a load of text in there detailing the pillock who wrote it. 
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Cue "He's autistic" from loved family and friends.
Fuckboy Trump is going to have a raging hard-on over this on Twitter.
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