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LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Author Gets 30-Months Prison Sentence

Colton Grubbs, 21, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for developing, marketing, and selling an infamous remote access trojan (RAT) called LuminosityLink. The malware was sold for $40, marketing itself as a legitimate tool for Windows administrators to “manage a large number of computers concurrently” In a plea agreement signed a year ago, he admitted that his malware would be used by some customers to remotely access and control computers without their victims’ knowledge or consent.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/hacking-tool-luminositylink.html

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