"Dr. Richard Forno, director of Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, offered a similar response, telling IBT bonafide white hat security researchers “have no business developing and then selling malware on dark web sites—let alone launching or managing a malware outbreak” as the indictment against Hutchins alleges.
“At the very least, other than the legality, such actions bring the person's professional ethics into question and can, as we're seeing today, backfire on them and certainly challenge one's status as a ‘white hat’ in the industry,” he said."