The youngster who spent his own money to protect people from the WannaCry virus has pleaded guilty to malware-related cybercrime charges.

By Uzair Amir

The ransomware took The Weather Channel’s live transmission offline for almost an hour. Another day, another ransomware attack; this time The Weather Channel suffered a powerful ransomware attack forcing its live TV telecast to go offline for 90 minutes. See: WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware The ransomware attack took place on […]

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By Ryan De Souza

MalwareTech is now facing 10 years in prison. In 2017, Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero but in August the same year, MalwareTech was arrested by the FBI at Las Vegas airport when […]

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Marcus Hutchins, a 24-year-old blogger and malware researcher arrested in 2017 for allegedly authoring and selling malware designed to steal online banking credentials, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiracy and to making, selling or advertising illegal wiretapping devices.

McAfee, Sophos and Avast are among the antivirus software suites impacted.

Research at military labs and Towson University shows that identifying malicious activity may require much less captured data than has been the case.

On the heels of several Facebook data privacy snafus this week - and over the past year - users no longer trust the platform.

A researcher said that millions of records were leaking 300,000 Tap30 drivers' names, ID numbers and phone numbers.

A range of fixes and workarounds have been published.

Mueller report finds that in July 2016, after then-candidate Donald Trump publicly called for Russia to "find the 30,000 emails," Russian agents targeted Hillary Clinton's personal office with cyberattacks.