Mobman gained access to AT&T systems and says he bricked a central switching PBX.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I get into a couple of them”
“bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
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Mobman gained access to AT&T systems and says he bricked a central switching PBX.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I get into a couple of them”
“bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
Darknet Diaries DEVELOPED_BY Jack Rhysider
Jack says the show is made entirely by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“This show is made entirely by me, Jack Rhysider”
McAfee DEVELOPED_BY John McAfee
Jack says John McAfee started the McAfee antivirus software company.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“That’s John McAfee who started the McAfee antivirus software”
Mobman claims he created Sub7, and Jack presents him as its maker, but the episode later reports competing claims that another person created it.
Uncertain Confidence 72% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“Mobman called his virus Sub7”
“Mobman stands firm on his claim that he wrote Sub7 but Ill Will says it wasn’t him”
Mobman EXPLOITS clear-text credential storage
Mobman obtained players' uo.cfg files to log into their Ultima Online accounts.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“if we get other people’s uo.config file, ‘cause there’s some idiots at school that play it, we could log in as them”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES firmware rewriting
Mobman says the commands rewrote the firmware and caused the PBX to become unusable.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“Apparently it rewrote the firmware on it and bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES PBX
The outage involved a central switching PBX that Mobman says was bricked.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“one of these central switching PBXs which happened to run like, the whole west coast telephone systems”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES AT&T
The outage affected AT&T's network in California, Nevada, and the wider west coast area.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“we just have a big network outage over there”
article by Ill Will MENTIONS Sub7
The article discusses who created Sub7 and disputes Mobman's claim of authorship.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“this article is saying otherwise”
“Ill Will swears that this isn’t the guy who wrote it”
Rolling Stone MENTIONS Sub7
Jack says Rolling Stone featured Mobman and stated that he created Sub7.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“Mobman was also featured in Rolling Stone magazine which says he did create it”
Sub7 sent infected users' IP addresses and online status to Mobman through ICQ.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“When they get infected with it, it’ll send you an ICQ message and it’ll tell you their IP address and that they’re online”
Mobman USES social engineering
Mobman socially engineered players into installing Sub7 by offering it as a game cheat.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“He was able to social engineer dozens of players to install the virus”
Mobman USES wardialing
Mobman used wardialing to identify modem-connected systems in AT&T's network.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“This is called wardialing”
Mobman used Sub7 to steal Ultima Online credentials and in-game property.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“Mobman only used Sub7 to steal Ultima Online logins for himself”
Mobman USES Ultima Online
Mobman played Ultima Online extensively and used it as the setting for his in-game exploits.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I started playing a game called Ultima Online”
Magnifying Glass accessibility abuse USES cmd.exe
Mobman replaced magnify.exe with cmd.exe to obtain a command prompt at the login screen.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I deleted Magnify and renamed cmd.exe to magnify”
Sub7 USES malware binding to an executable
Sub7 could be melded with a normal executable so that the executable still appeared to work while infecting the user.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“you click Meld and it’ll meld the malware with the executable”
The GRU is described as Russia's foreign intelligence agency.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“The GRU is Russia’s foreign intelligence agency”
Chinese intelligence operation ATTRIBUTED_TO China
The operation is presented as likely connected to China, but the episode says there was only a high probability and offers multiple possible explanations for the restaurant's activity.
Uncertain Confidence 83% · Jack Rhysider EP 21 Details
“it’s a high probability that this Chinese restaurant was there to steal trade secrets from the company and send them back to China’s government agencies”
Ira Winkler COMPROMISES computer operations center
Ira and his team gained access to and took control of the computers in the target computer operations center during the penetration test.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“we physically compromised every – the critical information we needed”
“it was really unclimactic to actually take over control of all their computers in the RND center”
Chinese intelligence operation DISCOVERED_BY Stan
Stan identified what Ira calls a Chinese intelligence operation operating across the street from the research and development center.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“Stan essentially found the Chinese intelligence operation operating across the street”
Chinese intelligence operation INVOLVES social engineering
The episode describes the suspected operation as using social situations and questions to recruit or pressure people into disclosing information.
Uncertain Confidence 85% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“What they do is they set up a social situation where people come in”
Stan is described as a former Colonel and agent of the GRU.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“Stan was a Colonel in the GRU before he defected over”
Ira Winkler MEMBER_OF National Signals Intelligence Operations Center
Ira says he took a job as an Intelligence Analyst for the National Signals Intelligence Operations Center.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“Finally I took a job as an Intelligence Analyst for the National Signals Intelligence Operations Center”
National Signals Intelligence Operations Center PART_OF National Security Agency
The National Signals Intelligence Operations Center is described as being within the NSA.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Ira Winkler EP 21 Details
“which was the only room that actually looks cool in NSA”