Collaborate Disseminate
Marcus Hutchins, also known by his online alias MalwareTech, has been spared jail time in his sentencing for the creation of the Kronos malware. Continue reading ‘WannaCry Hero’ Avoids Jail Time in Kronos Malware Charges
It’s been a busy few weeks in cybercrime news, justifying updates to a couple of cases we’ve been following closely at KrebsOnSecurity. In Ukraine, the alleged ringleader of the Avalanche malware spam botnet was arrested after eluding authorities in the wake of a global cybercrime crackdown there in 2016. Separately, a case that was hailed as a test of whether programmers can be held accountable for how customers use their product turned out poorly for 27-year-old programmer Taylor Huddleston, who was sentenced to almost three years in prison for making and marketing a complex spyware program. Continue reading Bot Roundup: Avalanche, Kronos, NanoCore