Re: @The idiot... you really don't get it...
"The real question is why does the FBI think this is their guy?"
They need a guy so anyone will do?
Oh, look, here's a bit of code he posted publicly that he then says was incorporated in Kronos. That'll do.
Incidentally the author of this analysis https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/08/inside-kronos-malware/ suggests that the actual code has a longer pedigree than Hutchins publication and that the implementation is more sophisticated concluding "The level of precision lead us to the hypothesis, that Kronos is the work of a mature developer, rather than an experimenting youngster."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
