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Hero WannaCry Researcher Charged over Links to Kronos Trojan

ID: 464c221d-8f94-51ae-8592-bf07da49ab80

STIX ID: report--464c221d-8f94-51ae-8592-bf07da49ab80

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2017-08-03

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Paul Roberts

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A British security researcher, Marcus Hutchins—credited with helping stop the WannaCry ransomware outbreak—was arrested in Las Vegas and indicted by U.S. authorities for allegedly creating, maintaining, promoting, and distributing the Kronos banking trojan in the United States between July 2014 and July 2015; prosecutors say the Kronos investigation was a multi-year probe unrelated to WannaCry.

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