Metasploit USES Samba zero-day exploit
HD says he wrote his own version of the Samba zero-day exploit and put it on metasploit.com.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we wrote our own version of the exploit, put it on metasploit.com”
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Metasploit USES Samba zero-day exploit
HD says he wrote his own version of the Samba zero-day exploit and put it on metasploit.com.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we wrote our own version of the exploit, put it on metasploit.com”
Blaster USES Metasploit
HD says Windows shellcode first published by Metasploit soon appeared in the Blaster worm.
Explicit Confidence 95% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“The first Windows shell code ever published by Metasploit ended up in the Blaster worm almost immediately afterwards.”
As a teenager, HD says he ran ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code for years.
Explicit Confidence 99% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“I was running ToneLoc across the entire 512 area code pretty much every night for years.”
HD Moore USES Metasploit
HD used Metasploit to conduct penetration tests and test systems.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we desperately needed this tool to do our job”
“HD even tried attacking it with Metasploit”
HD Moore USES War dialing
HD used war dialing to find computers accepting inbound connections.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 114 Details
“he started dialing random numbers to see if any would be picked up by a computer.”
HD used the Karma toolkit on an airplane to induce wireless clients to connect and reveal password hashes.
Explicit Confidence 98% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“we thought it’d be fun to run this tool on the actual airplane”
Metasploit USES ARP spoofing
An attacker ARP-spoofed an ISP gateway in an attack connected to the Metasploit website.
Explicit Confidence 91% · HD Moore EP 114 Details
“ARP-spoofed the gateway by hacking the ISP’s infrastructure”
According to user reports described by Jack, the AimKit loader took Discord logins and those accounts were subsequently banned.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“the loader was not just providing a cheat, but also grabbing a few things off that computer that it was installed on and sending it back to the devs at AimKit, such as Discord logins”
Jack reports that AimKit, presented as a game cheat, was actually malware that stole user information.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“one example of a game cheat that was actually malware stealing user information”
Game Developers Conference ASSOCIATED_WITH Eugene Harton
Eugene gave a presentation about cheaters at the Game Developers Conference and was targeted by members of the cheat community in connection with it.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Eugene says he was going to give a talk about cheaters at GDC, the Game Developers Conference”
AimJunkies ASSOCIATED_WITH Destiny
AimJunkies is described as a site selling cheats for Destiny.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“this site was selling cheats for the game Destiny”
BattlEye DEVELOPED_BY Bastian Suter
Eugene identifies Bastian Suter as the creator of BattlEye.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“Bastian Suter was the creator of BattlEye”
PokeGo++ lawsuit INVOLVES PokeGo++
The PokeGo++ lawsuit concerned a cheat that allowed users to move to another location without leaving home.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“there was a cheat going around for Pokemon Go, and this cheat was called PokeGo++”
MizuSoft legal action INVOLVES Ubisoft
Ubisoft identified and sued the operator of MizuSoft, seeking removal of the site and compensation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Ubisoft was able to identify this young man and sue him”
Chinese game-cheat bust INVOLVES Tencent
The Chinese game-cheat bust involved Tencent games and cooperation between Tencent and Chinese police, according to a BBC report cited by Jack.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Tencent and the Chinese police worked together to arrest the crew responsible for making cheats for Tencent games”
MizuSoft legal action INVOLVES MizuSoft
The MizuSoft legal action concerned the MizuSoft website, which sold game cheats for Ubisoft games.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“he was running a website called MizuSoft, selling game cheats for Ubisoft”
Eugene Harton MEMBER_OF Bohemia Interactive
Eugene says he previously worked at Bohemia Interactive on DayZ.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“before that I worked at Bohemia Interactive on a game called DayZ”
Eugene Harton MEMBER_OF Techland
Eugene says he currently works on Dying Light 2 at Techland.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“I currently work on a game called Dying Light 2 at Techland”
Jack Rhysider MENTIONS Sim City
Jack says the first hack he performed involved manipulating a Sim City save-game file.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“the first hack I ever did was manipulating the Save Game file on Sim City”
Jack Rhysider MENTIONS Game Genie
Jack cites Game Genie as an early example of video-game cheating tools.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“Haven’t you heard about Game Genie?”
Eugene Harton USES PayPal
Eugene says his team bought public cheats using PayPal money deposited by the company.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“they would buy it through PayPal money which was deposited by the company”
Eugene describes BattlEye as the protective anti-cheat agent used with DayZ.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“Bastian Suter was the creator of BattlEye, was the – which was the kind of agent we were using to protect the game”
Eugene Harton USES Remote Desktop
Jack says game developers use Remote Desktop so others can analyze cheats that are bound to one machine.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“game developers have to set up Remote Desktop so other people can come into that machine and analyze it”
Eugene Harton USES Reverse engineering
Eugene describes using a reverse-engineer to determine how acquired cheats broke the game.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Eugene Harton EP 115 Details
“use also our own reverse-engineer to figure out how they are breaking the game”
AimKit USES malware disguised as game cheat
AimKit is described as malware disguised and distributed as a game cheat.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 115 Details
“a game cheat that was actually malware stealing user information”