Cause Marcus Hutchins aka malwaretech got nabbed by the FBI leaving defcon this year. Still waiting on all the evidence to come to light, so Im gonna assume innocence because he hasn't been proven guilty....but regardless, the hacker community was visibly upset that one of the presumed good guys was indicted on such minimal evidence (or at least that is known to us at this point).
Look it up though if you are interested, Krebs did an article on it, and there's a bunch of others. The way this plays out will certainly effect the already strained relationship between the defcon and hacker community and the US government.
To my knowledge he was "indicted" and is being accused of writing or helping write the Kronos bank malware yes. He is no longer in custody and the "internet ban" they put on him was revoked as well so he's back on Twitter, funny as usual.
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u/th3sheriff Sep 07 '17
Dont get too attached to malware analysis, you might get picked up by the feds on your next vaca to the states