Claim

Kronos DEVELOPED_BY Marcus Hutchins

Marcus Hutchins says he wrote malware code that was combined with banking code to create the Kronos banking malware.

Episode
EP 158 — MalwareTech
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
96% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Malwaretech
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“I would write the malware for him and then he would sell it.”

Malwaretech · offsets 33848–33908

“he had combined it with the banking malware”

Malwaretech · offsets 34963–35006

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:39:12.216151+00:00

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