Does no good deed truly go unpunished?
The infosec community is scratching its head this morning following the news that Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old security researcher who singlehandedly stopped the spread of the global ransomware WannaCry, is reportedly being detained in an unknown location by U.S. authorities.
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Motherboard first picked up the story, reporting that a person by the same name, also aged 23, was being held at Nevada’s Henderson Detention Center. A friend of Hutchins told the publication that he was moved to another unknown location sometime on Aug. 3. Read more…
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