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Pump.fun robbery INVOLVES Raydium
The attack exploited the process that graduated Pump.fun tokens to Raydium and funded their liquidity there.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“when enough people buy it, it then gets graduated to Raydium”
Solana February 2023 outage INVOLVES Solana recursive transactions
The February 2023 Solana outage involved recursive transactions that repeatedly called other transactions or themselves.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jarett Dunn EP 152 Details
“you could do recursive transactions”
Pump.fun robbery INVOLVES Pump.fun
The robbery targeted Pump.fun and its token-graduation process.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“the elaborate and wild robbery of Pump.fun”
Pump.fun robbery INVOLVES Liquidity redirection
The incident involved redirecting liquidity funds away from Raydium to other Solana addresses.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“redirecting the Solana that was supposed to go to the DEX”
Solana February 2023 outage INVOLVES Geyser plugin
Jarett says validators could optionally run the Geyser plugin and its associated threads.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jarett Dunn EP 152 Details
“they can optionally do this Geyser plug in and get additional money by running these threads”
Jarett Dunn USES Automated transaction attack
Jarett wrote and executed an automated program that attacked thousands of Pump.fun meme coins.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“he wrote a little program to try to do it to not just one or ten or twenty, but thousands, tens of thousands”
Jarett Dunn USES Liquidity redirection
Jarett used liquidity redirection to send Solana intended for Raydium to addresses he selected or controlled.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“redirecting the Solana that was supposed to go to the DEX to somewhere else he controlled”
Jarett Dunn USES Flash-loan exploitation
Jarett used flash loans as part of the robbery, repeatedly borrowing funds to buy and then sell Pump.fun tokens.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“His program was working flawlessly. He was taking out flash loans”
Jarett Dunn USES Solana recursive transactions
Jarett says he queued recursive transactions, including transactions that called themselves immediately.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jarett Dunn EP 152 Details
“I was queuing as many recursive transactions as I possibly could”
Pump.fun is described as a platform for creating and trading meme coins on the Solana network.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 152 Details
“make a meme coin on the Solana network”
Facebook AFFECTS Image metadata
Jack says Facebook removes image metadata from uploaded photos, including potentially identifying information such as camera details and GPS coordinates.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 153 Details
“Facebook learned pretty quickly to scrub all the metadata out of photos to avoid stalking.”
Ricardo Estrada Zamora ASSOCIATED_WITH Constru-Bikes
Bryan identifies Constru-Bikes as the name of the business associated with the Facebook page used by Ricky Zamora.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“It’s just the name of this guy’s business, which is called Constru-Bikes.”
Stolen Bicycle Registry DEVELOPED_BY Bryan Hance
Bryan says he started the Stolen Bicycle Registry as a free database for stolen bicycles.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“So, I started this site called Stolen Bicycle Registry.”
Bike Index DEVELOPED_BY Bryan Hance
Bryan says he and Seth joined forces and iteratively built Bike Index into a better system.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“So, we joined forces, and it was just — from day one after that, it was just, pew, just success, success, success, and we just iteratively built it into a much better system.”
Bike Index DEVELOPED_BY Seth Herr
Bryan says Seth Herr joined him in building the system that became Bike Index.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“So, we joined forces, and it was just — from day one after that, it was just, pew, just success, success, success, and we just iteratively built it into a much better system.”
Ricardo Estrada Zamora USES Facebook
Bryan says Ricky Zamora used a Facebook page to advertise and sell bicycles, including bicycles believed to be stolen.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 153 Details
“He continues to sell stolen bikes on Facebook.”
Bryan Hance USES Bing Maps
Bryan says investigators used Bing Maps to compare the suspected San Jose staging location with visual details in the bicycle photographs.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“Then we went to Bing Maps, Google Maps, and we’re looking at this metal, shitty corrugated siding.”
Bryan Hance USES VPN
The investigation used a VPN connection into Mexico to view listings that had been region-locked.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 153 Details
“someone got the idea to use a VPN, connect into Mexico, and see if they can still see the listings.”
Bryan Hance USES Visual geolocation
Bryan and the investigators inferred whether bicycle photographs were taken in the United States or Mexico from visual details in the images and surroundings.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“We would see a place that just looked like an American setting.”
Bryan Hance USES Facebook
Bryan and the investigation team examined the seller’s Facebook page and listings to identify stolen bicycles and associated people.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“We’re looking at this guy, and we’re looking at his web page, and it’s tons and tons and tons of bikes.”
Bryan Hance USES OSINT
Bryan describes using open-source intelligence to identify the seller, his contacts, locations, and supply chain.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“I refer to this guy as the OSINT pinata, ‘cause the minute you poke at him, literally everything falls out.”
Ricardo Estrada Zamora USES Region locking
Bryan says the seller region-locked the Facebook page so that only people in Mexico could view it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“He region-locked it to Mexico.”
Bryan Hance USES Instagram
Bryan says investigators examined the seller’s Instagram account and obtained access by posing as someone else.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 153 Details
“One of the guys was able to sneak into his Instagram by pretending to be somebody else.”
Bryan Hance USES Google Maps
Bryan says investigators used Google Maps to compare the suspected San Jose staging location with visual details in the bicycle photographs.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“Then we went to Bing Maps, Google Maps, and we’re looking at this metal, shitty corrugated siding.”
Bryan Hance USES Facebook Marketplace
Bryan says Bike Index investigators and victims use Facebook Marketplace listings to identify and report suspected stolen bicycles.
Explicit Confidence 92% · Bryan Hance EP 153 Details
“OfferUp, Facebook Marketplace, and then there’s a whole sort of crappy constellation of knock-offs of OfferUp”