Morgan Culbertson, a former engineering student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Pittsburgh federal court to developing and marketing malware capable of remotely controlling Android phones, including enlisting the phones’ cameras to spy on owners, reports indicated.
The 20-year-old interned as an anti-malware professional at FireEye. Concurrently, known on the underground forum Darkode as “Android,” he peddled Dendroid, a remote access trojan (RAT), for $300.
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