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In exchange for his plea to those charges, prosecutors dismissed eight more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you may be aware, I\u2019ve pleaded guilty to two charges related to writing malware in the years prior to my career in security,\u201d Hutchins said in a statement on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwaretech.com\/public-statement\" target=_blank>website<\/a>. \u201cI regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes. Having grown up, I\u2019ve since been using the same skills that I misused several years ago for constructive purposes. I will continue to devote my time to keeping people safe from malware attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hutchins faces up 10 years in prison but could receive a more lenient sentence for accepting responsibility, the court filing said. Attorneys said Hutchins understands he could be deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sentencing has not been scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hutchins\u2019 arrest in Las Vegas in August 2017, as he was about to board a flight to England, came as a shock; just months earlier he was hailed a hero for finding a \u201ckill switch\u201d to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/dc60584d4b214f0fa6eb9ef88fdf46a7\" target=_blank>WannaCry virus<\/a> that crippled computers worldwide. At the time, he told The Associated Press in an interview that he didn\u2019t consider himself a hero but that he was combating malware because \u201cit\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors said Hutchins made incriminating statements during a two-hour interrogation, and later during a jailhouse phone call that Hutchins was told was being recorded, he told an unidentified person that he &#8220;used to write malware&#8221; years before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I knew it was always going to come back,&#8221; Hutchins said on the call, but that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;think it would be so soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors said in court filings that Hutchins sold the Kronos software to someone in Wisconsin and that he &#8220;personally delivered&#8221; the software to someone in California. The malware was designed &#8220;to intercept communications and collect personal information, including usernames, passwords, email addresses, and financial data&#8221; from computers, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kronos was &#8220;used to infect numerous computers around the world and steal banking information,&#8221; prosecutors said, without providing an exact number. It&#8217;s unclear how much Hutchins&#8217; profited from creating the malware, but in online chats the FBI intercepted on November 2014, Hutchins&#8217; lamented he had only made $8,000 from five sales. Hutchins said he thought he would be making around $100,000 annually by selling Kronos with one of his conspirators, who is not named in the indictment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hutchins initially pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was scheduled to go on trial in July. While his case has been pending, prosecutors barred Hutchins from returning home. 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