LuminosityLink malware author pleads guilty
The author of the LumunosityLink malware pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday. Colton Grubs, a 21-year-old man from Kentucky, faced up to 25 years in prison had the case gone to trial.
LumunosityLink first earned a spotlight in 2015 when Proofpoint researchers looked past the benign advertisements for the product and found a “very aggressive key logger that injects its code in almost every running process on the computer.”
The malware was sold for $40 as a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that, according to the product’s advertising, “allows system administrators to manage a large amount of computers concurrently.” In reality, it was malware that allowed over 6,000 customersto take over thousands of computers in 78 countries.
