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by jtl999 3230 days ago
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.
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eridius 3230 days ago
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.

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