THE CONFESSIONS OF MARCUS HUTCHINS.

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  • Author(s): GREENBERG, ANDY (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Wired. Jun2020, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p78-95. 18p. 1 Color Photograph, 4 Cartoon or Caricatures.
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      When Hutchins posted some sample code to show off his growing skills, another HackForums member was impressed enough that he asked Hutchins to write part of a program that would check whether specific antivirus engines could detect a hacker's malware, a kind of anti-antivirus tool. And both Hutchins and Vinny were careful to never log their conversations, Hutchins says. The money was nice too: As Vinny began to pay Hutchins thousands of dollars in commissions from UPAS Kit sales - always in bitcoin - Hutchins found himself with his first real disposable income. But as Hutchins tells it, Vinny seemed to have been preparing for this conversation, and he laid out an argument: Hutchins had already put in nearly nine months of work. When Hutchins met Randy on a hacker forum called TrojanForge after the Kronos release, Randy asked Hutchins if he'd write banking malware for him. [Extracted from the article]
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