Self-Proclaimed ‘Nuclear Bot’ Author Weighs U.S. Job Offer
Summary: Augustin Inzirillo, an 18-year-old in France, wrote the Nuclear Bot banking trojan, which Arbor Networks found for sale in cybercrime forums for USD $2,500 in December 2016 and which IBM X-Force said could not bypass its Trusteer Rapport product. Inzirillo released the source code on Github to undercut others profiting from it, denies selling the malware himself, and now says he is leaning toward accepting a U.S. job offer that his father Daniel fears is a law enforcement trap.
What's compelling: The code is now public: Inzirillo himself says people will reuse it to steal money, and the article notes the administration panel image showed 2,200 infected machines in the U.S. - a figure commenters dispute but that no one in the piece has verified.
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