'WannaCry Hero' Marcus Hutchins Pleads Guilty to Making Banking Malware

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7pad/marcus-hutchins-pleads-guilty-banking-malware-wannacry-hero

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Motherboard.vice.com
April 19, 2019

Marcus Hutchins, a security researcher known for helping stop the destructive 
WannaCry ransomware, plead guilty to hacking crimes on Friday.

Hutchins was accused of writing a banking malware called Kronos in 2014, after 
he finished high school. The researcher was arrested in Las Vegas after 
attending the hacker conference Def Con in 2017. Days later, he plead not 
guilty in a Milwaukee courtroom. He was scheduled to be tried this summer.

But on Friday, Hutchins plead guilty to two counts of hacking. According to the 
guilty plea, each of these counts carries a maximum sentence of 5 years, 
$250,000 in fines and up to 1 year of supervised release.

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