Amazon EC2 USES Tesla GPUs
The EC2 instances used by Joe's team are configured with Tesla GPUs for password-hash cracking.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details
“we spin up these Tesla GPUs on an instance”
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Amazon EC2 USES Tesla GPUs
The EC2 instances used by Joe's team are configured with Tesla GPUs for password-hash cracking.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joe Sarkisian EP 149 Details
“we spin up these Tesla GPUs on an instance”
Mobman says he moved to Canada and identifies himself as being in Windsor, Ontario.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“in ‘97, I moved to Canada with the whole family”
“I’m still in Windsor, still in Windsor, Ontario.”
Mobman ASSOCIATED_WITH B.U.G. Mafia
Mobman says his nickname came from the Romanian rap group B.U.G. Mafia and that Sub7 releases were dedicated to the group.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“It comes from a rap band, a Romanian rap band, called B.U.G. Mafia.”
“every single version was dedicated to B.U.G. Mafia.”
NetBus ASSOCIATED_WITH Remote access Trojan
NetBus is described as an original remote-access Trojan with a user interface and server component.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“It was the same thing, a remote-access Trojan rat.”
Mobman ASSOCIATED_WITH Romania
Mobman says he lived in Romania, is Romanian, and brought B.U.G. Mafia tapes from Romania.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“This was back when I was still in Romania.”
“I brought tapes with me from Romania.”
Greg says he went to Facebook for an interview because people believed he had written Sub7.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Greg EP 150 Details
“I went to Facebook.”
Sub7 ASSOCIATED_WITH Remote access Trojan
Sub7 is described as a remote-access tool and Trojan horse virus.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Greg EP 150 Details
“I made the Sub7. It’s a remote access tool, and it was a Trojan horse virus.”
Greg ASSOCIATED_WITH Capital One
Greg says he went to Capital One for an interview because people believed he had written Sub7.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Greg EP 150 Details
“I went to Capital One.”
Greg claims that he created Sub7, but the episode presents this as disputed and ultimately unsupported by the competing Mobman.
Uncertain Confidence 25% · Greg EP 150 Details
“I made the Sub7.”
“Greg messaged me after that call and wanted another call with me.”
Jack presents the Romanian Mobman as the actual creator of Sub7, and Mobman independently claims he created all released versions.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 150 Details
“This is the real Mobman, the actual creator of Sub7”
“Only one person made all the versions, dude.”
Ill Will spent years searching for the real Mobman and eventually found a possible email address and contacted him.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 150 Details
“Ill Will took it upon himself to find the real Mobman”
“eventually found a clue which led him to a potential e-mail address used by the real Mobman”
Rolling Stone MENTIONS Greg
Jack says Greg was featured in a Rolling Stone article identifying him as the creator of Sub7; this attribution is part of the disputed account.
Attributed Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 150 Details
“he was featured in a Rolling Stone magazine article saying he’s the one who created Sub7.”
Mobman says NetBus preceded Sub7 and inspired him to create something similar.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“it all stemmed from NetBus, right? That was — it preceded Sub7.”
“that’s kind of what inspired me to create something similar.”
Mobman says he learned Delphi and used it while developing Sub7.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“I wanted to start learning Delphi”
“I learned Delphi by working on Sub7.”
Greg USES impersonation
The episode characterizes Greg's long-running claim to be the Sub7 author as impersonating the real Mobman.
Uncertain Confidence 91% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“your biggest accomplishment is impersonating somebody else?”
“Greg pose as Mobman all these years?”
Mobman says he played around with NetBus before creating Sub7.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Mobman EP 150 Details
“I played around with that a little bit”
Greg USES social engineering
Greg describes using the false Sub7-author identity to obtain interviews and access at Capital One and Facebook, calling it social engineering.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Greg EP 150 Details
“that’s pretty good social fucking engineering to get all the way”
“I went to Capital One. I went to Facebook.”
SIEMonster DEVELOPED_BY Chris Rock
Chris says he created a SIEM solution by stitching together open-source products, which became SIEMonster Version 1.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Chris Rock EP 151 Details
“I can stitch some open-sourch products together like Elastic and stuff like that.”
“Which seems to be the platform they’re running now, SIEMonster Version 1.”
Jack Rhysider REFERENCES I Will Kill You
Jack identifies Chris Rock’s DEF CON talk titled “I Will Kill You” and directs listeners to find it online.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 151 Details
“a talk he gave at Defcon in 2015, titled I Will Kill You.”
“go to YouTube and type in ‘Chris Rock Defcon’.”
Chris Rock USES Aircrack-ng
The episode attributes the Aircrack-ng Wi-Fi attack to Chris and his team.
Derived Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 151 Details
“They log into that little device and fire up a tool called Aircrack-ng.”
Chris Rock USES Plink
Chris explicitly lists Plink among the reverse-shell tools used on the custom device.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Chris Rock EP 151 Details
“reverse-shell tools like Plink and stuff like that”
Chris Rock USES PuTTY
Chris explicitly lists PuTTY as part of the custom device he built for the operation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Chris Rock EP 151 Details
“with Wi-Fi hacking and things like PuTTY and reverse-shell tools like Plink”
Chris Rock USES proxy chaining
Chris says his team routed activity through multiple compromised systems and maintained a rotating list of targeted proxies.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Chris Rock EP 151 Details
“we would have this rotating list of our own proxies. Not Tor or anything like that; our own targeted proxies to do the hops that we want.”
Chris Rock USES Commodore 64
Chris says he moved from the Atari 2600 to the Commodore 64.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Chris Rock EP 151 Details
“From there it went to Commodore 64 and Amiga and then IBM.”
Chris Rock USES Atari 2600
Chris identifies the Atari 2600 as his first computer.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Chris Rock EP 151 Details
“my career started when my parents bought me my first computer, which then it was an older computer, but it was the Atari 2600.”