Computer expert Marcus Hutchins charged in US with creating malware

A British computer expert who helped shut down the NHS'WannaCry' cyber attack has been charged in the US with creating banking malware. Marcus Hutchins, 23, has been charged with six counts of creating and distributing malware known as Kronos. Hutchins made a telephone call from jail hours after his arrest last August to an unidentified individual - which was recorded and filed by US prosecutors, according to court documents. He said he had written code as a youngster which was turned into malicious software that prosecutors say harvested banking details. According to court documents seen by The Washington Post, Hutchins said in the phone call: 'So I wrote code for a guy a while back who then incorporated it into a banking malware, so they have logs of that, and essentially they want to know my part of the banking operation or if I just sold the code on to some guy... once they found I sold the code to someone, they wanted me to give them his name, and I don't actually know anything about him.'