Claims

Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached. These are not independently verified facts.

PRG Trojan VARIANT_OF WSNPoem

Secureworks described PRG as a newer, more advanced and effective version of WSNPoem.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 111 Details

“they called it PRG and had it down as a more advanced and effective version than the WSNPoem malware”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 6021–6121

Gameover ZeuS VARIANT_OF ZeuS Version 3

Gameover ZeuS developed from a newer version of ZeuS that added peer-to-peer capability.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 111 Details

“this would soon develop into a new version of ZeuS which had peer-to-peer capability, and that version was called Gameover ZeuS”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 37001–37128

ZeuS Version 3 VARIANT_OF ZeuS V2

ZeuS V2.1 became ZeuS Version 3.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 111 Details

“On 2011, ZeuS V2.1 became ZeuS Version 3”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 36855–36895

NFT phishing AFFECTS MetaMask

NFT phishing is described as tricking a victim into connecting MetaMask and revealing a wallet seed phrase, enabling wallet theft.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“the site said in order to mint the NFT, you just need to connect your MetaMask crypto wallet and enter your twenty-four-word seed phrase”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 71538–71674

“this person put their seed phrase into the bogus website, and as soon as they did, the thief got in their crypto wallet”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 71926–72045

Roblox botnet AFFECTS Roblox

The Roblox botnet/service is used to create nonexistent players and falsely increase a Roblox game's popularity.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Drew EP 112 Details

“it would use a botnet to do it. It would have players that didn’t exist join the game”

Drew · offsets 22761–22847

Discord token theft AFFECTS Discord

Discord token theft allows an attacker to log in as a Discord user without their password.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“if you can just take the authentication token, then you can log in as that person without needing a password”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 74321–74429

Coinbase balance-disclosure flaw AFFECTS Coinbase

Drew alleges that for about one month Coinbase exposed account balances when a valid username and password were supplied without 2FA; Jack says this may be the flaw reported in connection with drained accounts.

Uncertain Confidence 91% · Drew EP 112 Details

“there was an exploit in Coinbase for about one month where you could check the balance of any valid password and username”

Drew · offsets 48369–48490

“Bleeping Computer ran an article back in October 2021 saying that 6,000 Coinbase customers had their crypto wallets drained due to a flaw in Coinbase’s 2FA system”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 49176–49338

Baby Al Capone ASSOCIATED_WITH SIM swapping

Jack identifies Baby Al Capone as a person who allegedly stole cryptocurrency through SIM-swapping-related activity, while the episode does not provide a fuller identity claim.

Attributed Confidence 88% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“There’s a guy, goes by the nickname Baby Al Capone; he stole $20 million in cryptocurrency”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 79379–79469

“This guy was just fifteen years old when he was arrested”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 79472–79528

James O’Connor ASSOCIATED_WITH SIM swapping

Jack says authorities accused James O’Connor, also known as PlugWalkJoe, of stealing cryptocurrency through SIM-swapping.

Attributed Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“Then there’s PlugWalkJoe, James O’Connor. He was twenty-two, living in the UK, when he was arrested for SIM-swapping”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 79045–79162

“Authorities say he stole over $700,000 doing this”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 79165–79214

Drew ASSOCIATED_WITH OGUsers

Drew came across OGUsers and became one of its early users.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“he came across a forum called OGUsers”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 10538–10575

“I’m the 700th user to make an OGUser account”

Drew · offsets 10875–10919

Michael Turpin cryptocurrency theft ATTRIBUTED_TO Joel Ortiz

The episode says police evidence led to Joel Ortiz in connection with the cryptocurrency theft and that he was arrested and sentenced.

Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“were able to find some pretty solid evidence that led them to a guy named Nicholas Truglia who was twenty-one, living in Manhattan, and Joel Ortiz”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 63895–64041

“Joel Ortiz was sentenced to ten years in prison”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 64132–64179

Michael Turpin cryptocurrency theft ATTRIBUTED_TO Nicholas Truglia

Police investigation evidence led to Nicholas Truglia, whom Jack later calls the hacker sued by Turpin; the episode presents this attribution through its account of police and court proceedings.

Attributed Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“were able to find some pretty solid evidence that led them to a guy named Nicholas Truglia”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 63895–63985

“Turpin also sued the hacker, Nicholas”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 64920–64957

Michael Turpin cryptocurrency theft INVOLVES AT&T

Jack says AT&T insiders helped with the theft of $23 million from Michael Turpin's cryptocurrency wallet.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“In this case, it was insiders working at AT&T that helped do this”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 63572–63637

Michael Turpin cryptocurrency theft INVOLVES SIM swapping

The theft of Michael Turpin's cryptocurrency is described as following the SIM-swapping process discussed in the episode.

Derived Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“someone did the steps you just heard to hack into Turpin’s crypto wallet and steal $23 million worth of crypto out of it”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 63300–63420

Coinbase wallet-drain incident INVOLVES Coinbase balance-disclosure flaw

Jack believes the Coinbase wallet-drain reports may refer to the balance-disclosure/2FA flaw described by Drew.

Uncertain Confidence 86% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“I’m pretty sure it’s talking about this bug that Drew just said”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 49346–49409

Remo snatching TARGETS T-Mobile

Remo snatching is described as stealing a T-Mobile store manager's tablet to enable a SIM swap.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“you are going to T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the easiest place to hit right now. You go to a T-Mobile, you run in, you take the store manager’s tablet”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 32300–32425

Remo snatching USES social engineering

Before stealing the tablet, attackers allegedly social-engineer the store manager to obtain the manager's password.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“you need to do recon on the store, figure out everything you can about the manager to try to social-engineer them”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 52418–52531

“They send you a fake URL, you enter your manager login”

Drew · offsets 52690–52744

Combo list USES Credential stuffing

Combo lists are used to test reused username-and-password combinations against many sites.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“you could take this combo list and have a tool just automatically try logging into tons of sites”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 43802–43898

SIM swapping USES Telegram

SIM-swapping operations are organized through Telegram channels and chats.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 112 Details

“They all get organized inside a Telegram chat room”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 54627–54677

“people on Telegram aren’t the type of person to go run into a store”

Drew · offsets 53593–53660

Sentry NBA USES Combo list

Sentry NBA is named as software used to automatically check combo lists.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Drew EP 112 Details

“they use software such as Sentry NBA, OpenBullet, or SilverBullet to thereby automatically check all these combo lists”

Drew · offsets 43951–44069

OpenBullet USES Combo list

OpenBullet is named as software used to automatically check combo lists.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Drew EP 112 Details

“Sentry NBA, OpenBullet, or SilverBullet to thereby automatically check all these combo lists”

Drew · offsets 43977–44069

SIM swapping USES Credential stuffing

Drew describes SIM-swappers using reused credentials from databases to identify and access Coinbase accounts.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Drew EP 112 Details

“They’re using commons from databases, getting into Coinbase – this is all automated – and then they get their balance; they had SIM-swapped them”

Drew · offsets 47577–47721

Turbo USES Username swapping

Turbo is described as an automated system for claiming a username during username swapping.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Drew EP 112 Details

“an automated system called a swapper or a claimer or a turbo”

Drew · offsets 15509–15569

“the turbo automatically uses an Instagram endpoint to claim this username”

Drew · offsets 15643–15716

SilverBullet USES Combo list

SilverBullet is named as software used to automatically check combo lists.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Drew EP 112 Details

“Sentry NBA, OpenBullet, or SilverBullet to thereby automatically check all these combo lists”

Drew · offsets 43977–44069

Drew USES phishing

Drew says the fake gift-card balance site was a phishing page, and Jack says Drew operated one himself.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Drew EP 112 Details

“It’s a phishing page.”

Drew · offsets 8785–8806

“He learned how to clone a website which is really easy, and set up his own phishing site”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 9692–9780