Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached. These are not independently verified facts.
Ryan MEMBER_OF Lizard Squad
Ryan identifies himself as one of the hackers associated with Lizard Squad during the Sony and Xbox attacks.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“this man who calls himself Ryan says he is one of the hackers”
Joe Tidy says he is the BBC's cyber correspondent.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“I’m the BBC’s cyber correspondent.”
Marko Leponen MEMBER_OF Finnish police
Marko Leponen is identified as the head detective/main detective in the Finnish police investigation.
Derived Confidence 92% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“I spoke to the head detective, Marko Leponen”
Julius Kivimaki MEMBER_OF Lizard Squad
Joe Tidy says Kivimaki was part of Lizard Squad among other teenage cyber-crime gangs.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“there were other gangs he was part of like Lizard Squad and UGNazi, Isis gang”
Julius Kivimaki MEMBER_OF Isis gang
Joe Tidy says Kivimaki was part of the Isis gang among other teenage cyber-crime gangs.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“there were other gangs he was part of like Lizard Squad and UGNazi, Isis gang”
Julius Kivimaki POSSIBLY_SAME_AS Ransom Man
The episode presents the possibility that Ransom Man was Julius Kivimaki, supported by speculation and investigative evidence, but does not treat the identity as certain at that point.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 159 Details
“Could Ransom Man be him? Speculators were thinking it, but the investigator, Marko, was finding actual evidence that was pointing to him”
Ransom Man USES Ylilauta
Ransom Man also posted the stolen records and threats on the clearweb forum Ylilauta.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“As well as posting on Torilauta, he posted it to a clearweb forum called Ylilauta”
Ransom Man USES Torilauta
Ransom Man used Torilauta to announce the Vastaamo compromise, threaten publication, and publish records.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“he posted it on the darknet on a website which is now gone, but it was called Torilauta”
Ryan USES DDoS attack
Ryan admits involvement in taking down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network in the DDoS attack.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 159 Details
“this kid calling himself Ryan appearing on Sky News not hiding his face or voice at all, admitting to taking down Xbox Live and PlayStation”
Julius Kivimaki USES Interpor Red Notice
An Interpol Red Notice was issued to help locate and arrest Julius Kivimaki; the notice was used as part of the investigation's pursuit of him.
Explicit Confidence 78% · Joe Tidy EP 159 Details
“Marko does the quite extreme move of putting out an Interpol Red Notice to try and find out where he is”
Microsoft Office vulnerability AFFECTS Microsoft Office 2007
The episode identifies the vulnerability Greg ultimately found as the first disclosed vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2007.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“we have indeed the first vulnerability in Microsoft Office”
macro virus AFFECTS Microsoft Excel
Greg's macro virus modified Excel grade sheets and caused the school's Excel files to crash when a later column was added.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“the virus would restore the doc — the sheets when teachers opened up the sheets. That caused the Excel files to crash”
Microsoft Office vulnerability AFFECTS Microsoft Visio
The successful vulnerability was found in Visio, a product inside the Office suite.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“it happens to be in Office Visio. It was another product inside the Office suite.”
Greg alleges that Li Feng was placed at eEye to identify and report eEye's Microsoft zero-days; the account is explicitly unconfirmed.
Uncertain Confidence 72% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“Li Feng, he was working for us to identify zero-days that you guys may have found”
“I can’t confirm that that story is true”
Li Feng ASSOCIATED_WITH Microsoft
Greg alleges that Li Feng worked for Microsoft while being placed at eEye to obtain information about eEye's zero-days; Jack says the story could not be confirmed.
Uncertain Confidence 72% · Jack Rhysider EP 160 Details
“Microsoft got someone to — a job at eEye”
“I can’t confirm that that story is true”
1IM punter DEVELOPED_BY Greg Linares
Greg says he made the 1IM punter after finding the AOL client vulnerability.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“I remember finding that and making the 1IM punter back in the day.”
macro virus DEVELOPED_BY Greg Linares
Greg says he wrote macro viruses, including a macro virus that modified his school's Excel grade records.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“I made a macro virus that would look for my student ID number”
1IM exploit DISCOVERED_BY Greg Linares
Greg says he was one of the first people to discover the 1IM exploit.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“I was one of the first to discover the 1IM exploit.”
Greg Linares EXPLOITS access-camera buffer overflow
Greg exploited an unpatched access-camera buffer overflow to gain control of the cameras.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“there’s an access buffer overflow that allows you to control and gain access to every one of these cameras”
1IM exploit EXPLOITS Integer overflow
The 1IM exploit used an integer overflow in the AOL client triggered by an excessively long font-size value.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“the integer overflow in the AOL client when you sent a font size with a long enough number”
corporate espionage allegation involving Li Feng INVOLVES Li Feng
The corporate-espionage allegation centers on Li Feng and alleged placement between Microsoft, eEye, and a foreign government entity.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 160 Details
“this is corporate espionage”
“I can’t confirm that that story is true”
eEye Office 2007 vulnerability disclosure INVOLVES Microsoft Office vulnerability
The eEye Office 2007 disclosure involved the vulnerability Greg found through fuzzing and subsequent validation without a debugger attached.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 160 Details
“eEye found another zero-day, this time in the latest Microsoft Office”
eEye Office 2007 vulnerability disclosure INVOLVES Microsoft
eEye reported the Office vulnerability to Microsoft so it could investigate and patch it before public disclosure.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“then we report to Microsoft”
Greg Linares MEMBER_OF eEye
Greg joined eEye as a researcher after the company noticed his public exploit and malware work.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 160 Details
“eEye saw that Greg was writing a lot of malware and posting it publicly, and they liked that and decided to hire him”
Greg Linares USES Olly
Greg used Olly as a debugger to inspect application assembly, registers, memory, and behavior.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Greg Linares EP 160 Details
“Olly is a tool that you attach to your — any application that you want to see at low level”