Man Admits to Creating Crypting Service Cryptex and reFUD.me Scanner

  • 16 January 2018
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January 16th, 2018  By Catalin Cimpanu
 
A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty yesterday in a UK court for creating and advertising two malware-related services employed by thousands of criminals.
 
Goncalo Esteves, 24, of Cape Close, Colchester, Essex, admitted having created Cryptex, a software application called "crypter" that scrambles the binaries of other files so they won't be easily detected by antivirus software.
 
Esteves also admitted to running reFUD.me, a website where users could upload files and see if they were detected by antivirus software, but without triggering any warnings for the antivirus companies.
 
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