So I picked it up not knowing what it did at the time.

Thats why each time WannaCry infected a new computer, it kept on checking the fake URL.

Basically, the infection would continue as long as the URL wasnt a live page.

22-year-old hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack Is Donating $10,000 To Charity

He then pointed it to a sinkhole, which is a server designed to capture malicious traffic.

He is a really nice friend and also a business colleague.

He was just doing his job, he told The Daily Telegraph.

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So@Hacker0x01have awarded me a $10,000 bounty for the “kill-switch”.

I plan on splitting it between to-be-decided charities and education.

He wrote, After three years of effort, I finally have a malware lab Im happy with.

source: www.techworm.net