LuminosityLink malware author pleads guilty
The author of the LumunosityLink malware pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday. Colton Grubs, a 21-year-old man from Kentucky, faced up to 25 years in prison had the case gone to trial. LumunosityLink first earned a spotlight in 2015 when Proofpoint researchers looked past the benign advertisements for the product and found a “very aggressive key logger that injects its code in almost every running process on the computer.” The malware was sold for $40 as a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that, according to the product’s advertising, “allows system administrators to manage a large amount of computers concurrently.” In reality, it was malware that allowed over 6,000 customersto take over thousands of computers in 78 countries. Here was LuminosityLink’s website boasting about “powerful surveillance” capabilities: LuminosityLink was sold on HackForums, an infamous information security community that routinely features heavily in cybercrime indictments. The Mirai botnet found its way to […]
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