The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet - At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. ( archive.ph )
Hutchins was coming off of an epic, exhausting week at Defcon, one of the world's largest hacker conferences, where he had been celebrated as a hero. Less than three months earlier, Hutchins had saved the internet from what was, at the time, the worst cyberattack in history: a piece of malware called WannaCry. Just as that...
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