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		</div><p>A British cyber-security researcher credited with stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017 has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to developing malware to steal banking information.</p>
<p>Marcus Hutchins appeared in a Wisconsin court on Thursday after he agreed last month to plead guilty to developing a malware called Kronos and conspiring to distribute it from 2012 to 2015.</p>
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<p>Prosecutors dismissed eight more charges in exchange for his plea.</p>
<figure id="attachment_131171" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-131171" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/6D8B515C-64ED-4657-96D0-4A7B1B5A8716.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-131171" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/6D8B515C-64ED-4657-96D0-4A7B1B5A8716.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-131171" class="wp-caption-text">Marcus Hutchins helped stop a computer virus</figcaption></figure>
<p>Sentencing for Hutchins is set for July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison but could receive a more lenient sentence for accepting responsibility.</p>
<p>Hutchins’s arrest in Las Vegas in August 2017 came as a shock because months earlier he was hailed as a hero for finding a “kill switch” to the WannaCry virus that crippled computers worldwide.</p>
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