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FireEye intern accused in huge hacking bust

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dissent

CNN reports that one of those busted today in the huge Darkode takedown and associated crimes was  a FireEye intern.

Among those charged with crimes was Morgan Culbertson, a 20-year-old from Pittsburgh. He’s accused of creating a nasty malware that infects Android phones, steals data and controls the device.

Culbertson is currently a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He’s a two-time intern at the cybersecurity software maker FireEye where he’s been researching malware on Android smartphones, tearing apart viruses, and analyzing them.

According to federal investigators, Culbertson went on to create the infamous “Dendroid” malware. For $300, anyone who bought it could turn any legitimate Android app into malware. Buyers even got round-the-clock software support.

Read more on CNN.


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