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John Brennan account compromise INVOLVES John Brennan
The incident involved unauthorized access to John Brennan’s personal AOL email account.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Pete Williams EP 139 Details
“he hacked his way into Brennan’s personal AOL e-mail account”
Operation Detroit INVOLVES Tor's Hammer
The Detroit operation involved using Tor’s Hammer as an alternative traffic-flooding tool.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“Let’s use Tor’s Hammer”
Default says he joined AnonSec after leaving AnonGhost.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“Then I joined a group called AnonSec”
Default says he joined AnonGhost before leaving because some leaders became radicalized.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“I joined into a group called AnonGhost”
Default says he eventually took over AnonSec.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“I eventually ended up taking over the group”
Default MEMBER_OF Crackas With Attitude
Default joined Crackas With Attitude’s hacktivist activity and worked with Cracka against government targets.
Derived Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“he starts hanging out with these folks from CWA and joins in on their hacktivism”
Cracka MEMBER_OF Crackas With Attitude
Cracka is identified as the head of Crackas With Attitude.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“the head of CWA was a guy named Cracka”
Default says he connected through Tor nodes as part of his operational security.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“I’m connecting through Tor nodes”
Default USES Denial-of-service flooding
Default identifies the Detroit attack as the beginning of his politically motivated activity, while the episode describes his participation in the flooding attack.
Derived Confidence 85% · Default EP 139 Details
“that was our first segue into politically-motivated stuff”
LOIC USES Denial-of-service flooding
Jack describes LOIC as flooding the target with traffic until it cannot handle legitimate customers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“it floods the target IP with loads of traffic”
Default recorded videos of his own criminal activity using Bandicam, according to the episode’s account of evidence seized from his computer.
Derived Confidence 86% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“Screenshots that you had taken, Bandicam videos”
Default says he connected through his botnet when conducting activity online.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“I’m connecting through Tor nodes and my botnet”
Crackas With Attitude USES Joint Agency Booking System
CWA accessed JABS to look up people in the prison system and investigate other hackers.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Default EP 139 Details
“JABS, the Joint Agency Booking System”
AnonSec built a botnet to route its attacks through compromised computers rather than directly from members.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“they decided they needed to build a botnet”
Default USES Facebook four-digit PIN reset exploit
Default says he and the group used the Facebook four-digit PIN reset flaw to access accounts.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Default EP 139 Details
“I didn’t care if it was Facebook or Twitter, which we had a zero-day on”
Tor's Hammer USES Denial-of-service flooding
Tor’s Hammer was described as flooding the target with traffic and taking the payment system offline.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“this also floods the target with a whole bunch of traffic”
Crackas With Attitude USES Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal
CWA accessed LEEP and downloaded personal information about FBI agents.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“Default and Cracka got into the LEEP database and downloaded all the information”
The group routed attack connections through Tor and its botnet for operational concealment.
Derived Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“they set up this botnet to pipe their traffic through someone else’s computer”
Crackas With Attitude USES social engineering
CWA’s attacks against government personnel primarily used social engineering and information obtained through it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“Most of it was just social engineering”
Crackas With Attitude USES Doxxing
CWA obtained and publicly exposed personal information belonging to government officials and police officers.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“we’re going to show the world this”
“we dropped their dox, pretty much”
Tor's Hammer USES Tor
Jack says Tor’s Hammer routes the attack traffic through Tor to hide its source.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“it uses Tor to route all the traffic through it”
Default says he mined and bought Bitcoin beginning in 2011 and held a substantial amount of it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“Literally mining and buying from — since 2011”
4archive ASSOCIATED_WITH 4Chan
Madison identifies 4archive as a 4chan archive site.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Madison EP 140 Details
“4archive, which is a 4chan archive site”
Florida’s Non-Consensual Pornography Law ASSOCIATED_WITH sexual cyber-harassment
The episode says Florida's law specifically criminalizes the type of sexual cyber-harassment described in the case.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Christine EP 140 Details
“it is absolutely for this exact situation”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says he created the episode and identifies it as Darknet Diaries.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Madison EP 140 Details
“This episode was created by me, the faded raider, Jack Rhysider”