Wow - MalwareTechBlog detained for selling Malware on Alphabay

Security researcher who was famously known for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack this year has been detained by the FBI for his involvement in selling Malware on AlphaBay in 2015. Indictment document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3912524-Kronos-Indictment-R.html


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[36 Points] SloppyJoeLieberman:

Well damn. Truth is stranger than fiction at times.


[17 Points] redditthentoss:

Juicy.


[17 Points] Virtix21:

He wrote it, is that REALLY a crime?

Edit: There is NO sold PROOF he wrote it other than some guy who got nabbed by the feds word.

Innocent until proven guilty, right boys?


[11 Points] xmrworld:

Get fucked by the traceability of Bitcoin. Time for change, time for monero ....


[7 Points] Bigw0rmer:

The other guy must be Vinny K , he was the vendor that first hit the scene on Ab. Also the first vendor to bring quality malware to Ab as well . If you bought a hacked hulu or a hacked netflix ... this is how they got those + other stuff


[9 Points] tipcho:

I rarely go out in open day but here we are. So who is he? You can check up on twitter and everyone is saying he is whitehat, researcher, good guy etc. You can google his dox "malwaretech touchme"(not allowed to post i think) dated on 2015 also you can check his own blog dated 2013 https://www.malwaretech.com/2013/06/carberp-source-code-now-leaked.html where he responds as TouchMe who he is in fact.

Most egoistic blackhat malware developer I have ever crossed path with. I know him since 2010 and pretty sure nothing has changed. The scene is not that big specially when he got too attached to his nickname TouchMe and egoistic attitude it was easy to recognize him accross forums, hackforums in it's days when it was real, darkode, opensc, trojanforge. I am pretty sure he developed several pieces of malware he used in wild and operated botnet by himself.

He was making great profit from his enterprise however wish of every young hacker is to have backup story as malware researcher so he persuded it. People actually belived him. He is really smart fella but you can't get that cocky. He tricked almost everyone. However FBI's people are very smart, they don't forget and they pinned him with anything they had. They don't get you for hacking but they get you for drugs scenario happened.

Keep low profile, stay paranoid, never be to cocky.


[6 Points] ThrowawayAVILSD:

The question we all need the answers for how did they link his AB name to him?


[6 Points] unc0ntr0lleddeliver3:

Do computer nerd snitches get stitches?


[2 Points] seventhaccount7:

YA RIGHT LOL.


[1 Points] Bigw0rmer:

They busted him leaving def con ..geez

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywp8k5/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us-after-def-con?utm_source=mbtwitter


[1 Points] CapnKrump_2:

Pretty clever hiding in plain sight like that.


[1 Points] 38082908209:

The WannaCry Wallets were emptied a day after his arrest. Seems too much of a coincidence.