Mubix says the team pivoted into the target network.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“Then we pivot into the network”
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Mubix says the team pivoted into the target network.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“Then we pivot into the network”
Robert M. Lee USES incident response
Robert was called to conduct incident response for a client operating wind turbines.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Robert M. Lee EP 22 Details
“They’re reaching out and calling us to go do an incident response with them”
Snow USES social engineering
Snow professionally performs social-engineering assessments for companies.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Snow EP 22 Details
“I started my own consultancy and I’ve worked for a handful of companies doing this work professionally”
Mubix USES penetration testing
Mubix worked as a penetration tester and used penetration testing in assessments of companies.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details
“he was a penetration tester and his job was to hack into companies to test their security”
Snow identifies vishing, or voice phishing, as one of her assessment methods.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details
“vishing, with a v, voice phishing”
Snow identifies phishing as one of the main types of security assessment she performs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details
“The main ones that I do are physical security, phishing”
Snow USES Open-source intelligence
Snow says she performs open-source intelligence gathering before assessments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details
“I do a lot of open source intelligence-gathering”
Mubix USES Meterpreter
Mubix says the team deployed a Meterpreter session during the test.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“we dump a Meterpreter session on there”
Mubix USES Remote code execution
During the penetration test, Mubix's team found and used remote code execution to obtain a shell on the web server.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Mubix EP 22 Details
“One of our guys on the team finds a remote code execution under one of the web apps”
Buckazoid ASSOCIATED_WITH Vladimir Levin
According to a story Jack says may not be true, Buckazoid told Vladimir Levin about the Citibank access and transfer method, and Vladimir paid him for the information.
Uncertain Confidence 78% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“The story of Buckazoid and his hacker friend in St. Petersburg may not be true.”
“he told another computer guy in St. Petersburg named Vladimir Levin what he found”
online bank robbery ATTRIBUTED_TO Vladimir Levin
The episode attributes the online bank robbery to Vladimir Levin; he later pled guilty and admitted to the conduct.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“he pled guilty and explained and admitted to everything”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says the show is made by him, identifying him as its creator.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“This show is made by me, the Karate Skid, Jack Rhysider”
online bank robbery COMPROMISES Citibank cash management system
Vladimir gained access to and used Citibank’s cash management system to initiate transfers.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“Vladimir logged into the Citibank cash management system and confirmed he could type commands in it.”
online bank robbery INITIAL_ACCESS_VIA Sprintnet
The fraudulent activity initially reached Citibank through dial-up access to Sprintnet.
Derived Confidence 88% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“He dialed into Sprintnet. He logged into the Citibank cash management system”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Katarina
The incident involved Katarina, who was left in San Francisco to withdraw transferred funds and was arrested by the FBI.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Steve Garfinkel EP 23 Details
“When she came back the following day FBI San Francisco office was waiting for her and arrested her.”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Anatoly Lysenkov
The incident involved a man identified at the time as Anatoly Lysenkov, who was arrested in Holland while attempting to collect transferred money.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Steve Garfinkel EP 23 Details
“The Dutch police arrested a Anatoly Lysenkov, the guy who was arrested in Holland picking up money.”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Tambov gang
The incident involved members of the Tambov gang, who agreed to finance travel, bank accounts, and collection of transferred funds.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“The Tambov gang agreed to this plan and would finance the people to fly to foreign countries, set up bank accounts there, and collect the money”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Yevgeny Korolkov
The incident involved Yevgeny Korolkov, who opened bank accounts and later cooperated with the FBI.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“This time a guy named Yevgeny Korolkov would travel with his wife to San Francisco and open up numerous bank accounts there.”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Aleksey Loshmanov
The incident involved Aleksey Loshmanov, who was arrested in Israel while connected to a planned transfer.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Steve Garfinkel EP 23 Details
“The Israeli cops arrested a guy by the name of Aleksey Loshmanov.”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Vladimir Levin
The incident involved Vladimir Levin as the principal hacker who conducted the fraudulent transfer attempts.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“Vladimir Levin attempted forty fraudulent money transfers totalling ten million dollars.”
online bank robbery INVOLVES FBI
The FBI investigated the fraudulent Citibank transfers and pursued the participants.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“Citibank quickly called the FBI.”
“I was a case agent on the Vladimir Levin case.”
online bank robbery INVOLVES Citibank
The first online bank robbery involved fraudulent transfers from Citibank systems.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“the first online bank robbery”
“Vladimir logged into the Citibank cash management system”
Steve Garfinkel MEMBER_OF FBI
Steve Garfinkel says he was an FBI agent for twenty-one years and worked as the case agent on the Levin case.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Steve Garfinkel EP 23 Details
“I’m a retired FBI agent. I spent twenty-one years in the FBI”
Phrack issue 42 listed known Sprintnet numbers and connection details.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“issue 42 of Phrack was released and in this issue there was a massive listing of all known Sprintnet numbers”
Phrack published the online locations of 363 Citibank computers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 23 Details
“This issue of Phrack told you the online location of 363 different Citibank computers.”