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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by thefreeman on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:00PM (#14931674)
I would imagine when he allegedly sold the malware it wasn't named "Kronos". He could have had no idea at the time that the specific campaign was his code, or perhaps had a suspicion and wanted to confirm it.
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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by tptacek on Friday August 04, 2017 @04:05PM (#14931728)
There's a video demonstration of the tool we're talking about. Nobody who has watched it is going to for a moment entertain the idea that the author of this tool didn't understand its intention. Its purpose is extracting financial information from botnets.
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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by randallsquared on Friday August 04, 2017 @05:22PM (#14932396)
That doesn't seem to be a reply to GP's post.
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