Security researcher who stopped WannaCry, arrested and charged with creating Kronos banking Trojan

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Hutchins detained by FBI as he returned to the UK from Black Hat security conference

Marcus Hutchins, the security researcher who stopped the WannaCry ransomware outbreak in May, has been arrested by the FBI as he tried to return to the UK after the Black Hat and Def Con security c...

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