{"id":94179,"date":"2019-07-27T17:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/cybersecurity-expert-arrested-in-vegas-for-creating-malware-wont-serve-any-more-time"},"modified":"2019-07-27T17:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T00:42:59","slug":"cybersecurity-expert-arrested-in-vegas-for-creating-malware-wont-serve-any-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/cybersecurity-expert-arrested-in-vegas-for-creating-malware-wont-serve-any-more-time","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity expert arrested in Vegas for creating malware won\u2019t serve any more time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybersecurity-expert-arrested-in-vegas-for-creating-malware-wont-serve-any-more-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 A British cybersecurity expert credited with helping stop a worldwide computer virus in May 2017 won\u2019t serve any additional time behind bars for creating malware years before he won international acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced 25-year-old Marcus Hutchins on Friday in Milwaukee to time served, with a year of supervised release. Stadtmueller said the virus Hutchins helped stop was far more damaging than the malware he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchins pleaded guilty in May to developing and conspiring to distribute malware called Kronos from 2012 to 2015. Prosecutors dismissed eight charges in exchange for his plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 A British cybersecurity expert credited with helping stop a worldwide computer virus in May 2017 won\u2019t serve any additional time behind bars for creating malware years before he won international acclaim. U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced 25-year-old Marcus Hutchins on Friday in Milwaukee to time served, with a year of supervised [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}