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Cyberattacks across the world have grown ever-larger in scale, inflicting billions of dollars of damage \u2013 and the US is spearheading the quest to make hackers pay, wherever they are, sometimes with exceedingly tough jail terms.<\/p>\n
The US government is pulling no punches when it comes to prosecuting cyber criminals, often seeking extradition orders and, in most cases, dedicating countless man hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars relentlessly pursuing some of the world\u2019s most notorious hackers.<\/p>\n
Its latest catch, though, is a reputed white hat hacker \u2014 that is, a \u2018good\u2019 security expert whose hacking bears no ill intent. He helped stop a global cyberattack in its tracks, potentially saving the global economy millions of dollars in the process \u2013 and is now charged in a separate malware-related case.<\/p>\n
Read more about him and others in RT\u2019s list of some of the most notable hackers the US has pursued and attempted to extradite since 2000, with varying degrees of success.<\/p>\n
He has been charged<\/a> in connection with \u201ccreating and distributing the Kronos banking trojan,\u201d<\/em> first discovered in 2014, which targets banking systems and harvests credit card data and private customer information once an email attachment has been opened on a target computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe admitted he was the author of the code of Kronos malware and indicated he sold it,\u201d<\/em> prosecutor Dan Cowhig told the federal court.<\/p>\n Hutchins is accused of collaborating with an unnamed co-defendant who maintained and advertised the malware on the now defunct AlphaBay marketplace on the Dark Web. The Malware was sold for $3,000 according to the indictment, though IBM researchers saw it advertised with a $7,000<\/a> price tag.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Hacker who stopped WannaCry gets $30,000 bail<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Hutchins has posted the $30,000 bail but Judge Nancy Koppe ordered him to surrender his passport and he has been banned from using devices with internet access upon his release on August 7, according to his attorney, Adrian Lobo, as cited by Reuters.<\/p>\n Lauri Love, 32, of dual Finnish-British citizenship is alleged to have hacked the US Federal Reserve Bank, NASA, the US Army, the FBI, and the Environmental Protection Agency, and faces extradition to the US with multiple indictments<\/a> for arrest spanning three different court districts in three different states.<\/p>\nLauri Love (2013 – present)<\/h2>\n