A British cyber security expert credited with stopping the worldwide WannaCry computer virus is due to appear in a US court for a hearing about statements prosecutors say he made in a recorded jailhouse phone call acknowledging that code he wrote ended up in malware. A British cyber security expert credited with stopping the worldwide WannaCry computer virus is due to appear in a US court for a hearing about statements prosecutors say he made in a recorded jailhouse phone call acknowledging that code he wrote ended up in malware. A US grand jury indictment accuses Marcus Hutchins of creating and distributing malware known as Kronos, designed to steal banking passwords. In the jailhouse call, which Hutchins was told was being recorded, he said he “used to write malware” years before. Robert Graham, a computer security expert not connected to the case, warned against concluding that Hutchins had done something wrong simply because his code wound up in malware.

Source: Irish Independent May 16, 2018 15:33 UTC