WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won’t serve prison time

By Uzair Amir The British cyber security researcher and WannaCry ransomware hero Marcus Hutchin was initially facing up to 10 years in a US prison. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won't serve prison time...

WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware

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,...