[jtl999]

I doubt that if he was a serious criminal that created and USED said banking malware for a fraud, and the FBI clearly had victim impact statements, that he would get such a lenient set of bail conditions.

The longer this case goes on the stranger it gets.

My current working theory is that the FBI was investigating the Kronos malware, caught one of the developers and/or sellers and they knew he was working with someone, but not who, and this redacted person didn't like MalwareTech for any myriad of reasons so he claimed, as an informant that the other developer was MalwareTech.

Like I said, just a theory. I could be wrong and we haven't seen the FBI's evidence.

[eridius]

> On August 4, in a hearing in Las Vegas, the prosecution said that Hutchins had admitted "that he was the author of the code that became the Kronos malware" when he spoke to FBI agents.

[jtl999]

Admitted in what context?

Notice the "became the Kronos malware". It's entirely possible Kronos used MalwareTech's open source PoC's of rootkits and other things, he knew, and was asked about it and but without the guidance of a lawyer said: "Sure. I wrote TinyXPB." or similar.

Concerning for sure.

[eridius]

Yeah, context is very important. I just posted that as a reply to

> My current working theory is that the FBI was investigating the Kronos malware, caught one of the developers and/or sellers and they knew he was working with someone, but not who, and this redacted person didn't like MalwareTech for any myriad of reasons so he claimed, as an informant that the other developer was MalwareTech.

[solotronics]

they are recruiting him.