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January 12, 2021 07:45 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/12/hacker-marcus-hutchins-and-the-massive-cyberattack-he-thwarted.html
Hacker Marcus Hutchins and the massive cyberattack he thwarted
Earth's Deadliest [Computer] Virus is a great overview of the 2017 Wannacry ransomware attack, and Marcus Hutchins' efforts to halt its progress.
The Disrupt video is based on the terrific Wired article by Andy Greenberg, which describes Hutchins' arrest and questioning about the Kronos banking malware he had written as a teen:
— Read the restFor those minutes, Hutchins allowed himself to believe that perhaps the agents wanted only to learn more about his work on WannaCry, that this was just a particularly aggressive way to get his cooperation into their investigation of that world-shaking cyberattack.
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/01/12/hacker-marcus-hutchins-and-the-massive-cyberattack-he-thwarted.html
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