FireEye intern VXer pleads guilty for Darkode droid RAT ruse

A former FireEye intern has pleaded guilty to creating and selling the Dendroid malware on the raided Darkode criminal forum. Morgan Culbertson, 20, of Pittsburgh, pleaded guilty before a Pittsburgh federal judge and faces sentencing 2 December. He faces a maximum of 10 years prison and a $250,000 fine, and has no prior …

[graeme leggett]

admin known as Sp3cal1st

Not "Sp3c1al1st"? A typo, or deliberate move in name choice by the admin?

[Bloakey1]

Re: admin known as Sp3cal1st

Might be tipping hat to military, SP3 used to be equivalent to E4 and was a master specialist as for Cal and 1st that could be unit stuff.

[graeme leggett]

Re: admin known as Sp3cal1st

Thanks. Interesting because if you want to be more obscure on the net you need a username that has nothing to do with you or your likes or activities...

...while at he same time being memorable?

[Turtle]

@Bloakey1 Re: admin known as Sp3cal1st

"Might be tipping hat to military, SP3 used to be equivalent to E4 and was a master specialist as for Cal and 1st that could be unit stuff."

Naaah. He's tipping his hat to the version of Win XP that he's using: SP3.