Hacker Who Stopped WannaCry Charged With Writing Banking Malware
Aug 07, 2017•7 min
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Episode description
Just three short months ago, security researcher Marcus Hutchins entered the pantheon of hacker heroes for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack that ripped through the internet and paralyzed hundreds of thousands of computers. Now he's been arrested and charged with involvement in another mass hacking scheme—this time on the wrong side.
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