Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by sspiff on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:01AM
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As far as I've been able to figure out, he wrote an open source API hooking engine that was used as a key component of the Kronos malware.
When he found his hooking code in a malware sample (presumably Kronos), he expressed his disappointment / frustration with this (ab)use of his work on twitter. Whether or not this is truthful or just public posturing remains to be seen.
None of this is recent news - it played out in early 2016, so his arrest now is a little odd, unless the DOJ has uncovered new details that have not been publicly disclosed.
If it turns out he is arrested for some of his public code in a piece of malware, it should worry both security researchers and open source developers a lot.
When he found his hooking code in a malware sample (presumably Kronos), he expressed his disappointment / frustration with this (ab)use of his work on twitter. Whether or not this is truthful or just public posturing remains to be seen.
None of this is recent news - it played out in early 2016, so his arrest now is a little odd, unless the DOJ has uncovered new details that have not been publicly disclosed.
If it turns out he is arrested for some of his public code in a piece of malware, it should worry both security researchers and open source developers a lot.