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Criminal Screen DEVELOPED_BY Salvatore Verini Jr.
Sal created Criminal Screen as one of his three data-broker websites.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“He created three almost identical websites; Records Check, Criminal Screen, and the flagship site, National Public Data.”
Records Check DEVELOPED_BY Salvatore Verini Jr.
Sal created Records Check as one of three nearly identical data-broker websites.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“He created three almost identical websites; Records Check, Criminal Screen, and the flagship site, National Public Data.”
Luan Barbosa DISCOVERED_BY CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike investigated USDoD and determined Luan's name, address, phone number, tax registration ID, and other details from his reused email address.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“CrowdStrike was able to figure out his name, address, phone number, tax registration ID, and more.”
PEO exploit EXPLOITS Unknown PEO vulnerability
The exploit was built for an unknown vulnerability in the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information System.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“were able to build an exploit for an unknown vulnerability in the US army IT platform called the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information System”
National Public Data breach INVOLVES data scraping
The episode describes the breach as involving a scraping company whose purpose was to find and aggregate information about people.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Speaker3 EP 177 Details
“The problem with the NPD data breach is that it is a scraping company that was designed to find out everything it can about you.”
Matthew Kierans MEMBER_OF University of Iowa
Matthew obtained a $100,000-a-year IT job at the University of Iowa while using William Woods's identity.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Now he got a $100,000-a-year IT job at the University of Iowa”
Luan Barbosa SAME_AS USDoD
Jack identifies the hacker known as USDoD as Luan Barbosa.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“his name was Luan Barbosa”
“USDoD, or Luan”
USDoD TARGETS Department of Defense
USDoD breached the Department of Defense and published military emails and passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“That is how he got the hacker name USDoD, by breaching the Department of Defense”
USDoD or Luan is described as having broken into a cybersecurity defense center at NATO.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Luan, broke into Cybersecurity Defense Center at NATO”
USDoD or Luan is described as having breached Airbus and its vendors.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“the aerospace company Airbus and their 3,000 vendors”
USDoD targeted InfraGard, the FBI-linked system for reporting incidents.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“His next target was InfraGard.”
“that was the site that USDoD was trying to attack”
Luan Barbosa USES Doxxing
Luan was doxxed after CrowdStrike and others identified and exposed his personal details, although Jack characterizes the doxxing as initially private.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Basically, Luan got doxxed, but privately”
Matthew Kierans USES identity theft
Matthew stole William Woods's wallet and documents, copied his identity information, and used William's identity for decades.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Matthew had started calling himself William Woods.”
“Matthew had been using William’s identity for thirty-one years”
USDoD USES data scraping
USDoD used a Python script to retrieve InfraGard members' contact information through the site's API.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“USDoD asked a friend to write him a Python script to grab the data”
“he used it to steal every InfraGard member’s contact information”
National Public Data USES data scraping
National Public Data collected personal information by scraping or acquiring data from brokers, marketing lists, social media, and apps.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Sal either bought or scraped data from other data brokers, subscription and marketing lists, loyalty and rewards programs, social media, and other apps.”
USDoD USES credential reuse
USDoD exploited Sal's reused passwords to move from Records Check into National Public Data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Sal reused passwords, which allowed Luan to log in to National Public Data”
USDoD USES social engineering
USDoD tried to gain access to the PEO network by impersonating and socially engineering one of its developers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“He tried getting access through the developer using social engineering techniques”
Clearview AI USES data scraping
Clearview AI is described as scraping photographs and information from major social media websites.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“They were raiding major social media websites. They’d take Facebook, for example, grab every picture and bit of information they could”
USDoD USES PEO exploit
USDoD accepted a job to help collect military data and worked with Russian hackers in an operation involving an exploit for PEO.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“USDoD accepted the job”
“USDoD discovered that a way into this network”
Garmin ransomware attack ATTRIBUTED_TO Evil Corp
The Garmin ransomware attack is attributed in the episode to Evil Corp.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 178 Details
“this time by a hacker group called Evil Corp”
Laura Woods AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Laura Woods is credited with researching and writing the episode.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 178 Details
“This episode was researched and written by Clippy’s revenge, Laura Woods.”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack Rhysider says he created this episode of Darknet Diaries.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 178 Details
“This episode was created by me, Mr. Glitchy Pants, Jack Rhysider.”
Ubiquiti breach COMPROMISES Ubiquiti
The breach involved unauthorized access to Ubiquiti systems and theft of company data.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 178 Details
“Somebody has been poking around where they shouldn’t have, and data has been exfiltrated”
CWT ransomware attack COMPROMISES Carlson Wagonlit Travel Company
The CWT ransomware attack compromised Carlson Wagonlit Travel Company’s network and rendered many computers unusable.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 178 Details
“Then they infected the network with ransomware.”
“Ransomware rendered a lot of their computers worthless”
Garmin ransomware attack INVOLVES Ransomware
The Garmin attack involved ransomware.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 178 Details
“Garmin, the GPS company, gets hit with ransomware, too”