Man Running 'Product Testing' Service for Malware Made Thousands

  • 16 January 2018
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January 16th, 2018 By Tara Seals
 
A UK man has confessed to running a 'product-testing' service that let hackers determine whether their malicious tools could beat antivirus scanners. In the process, he made thousands off of the enterprise.
 
Following a joint investigation by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, Goncalo Esteves, 24, of Cape Close, Colchester, Essex, admitted that he ran the website reFUD.me, which offered the testing service. Additionally, under the pseudonym KillaMuvz he also sold custom-made malware-disguising products (dubbed Cryptex Reborn and Cryptex Lite) for those that failed the test.
 
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