Claims

Qualified triples from the transcripts. Origin, speaker, and evidence stay attached. These are not independently verified facts.

Barnaby Jack USES firmware modification

Barnaby loaded custom firmware to control ATM functions.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 35 Details

“He was able to load a custom firmware onto a USB flash drive.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 7748–7809

Carbanak USES money mule

The attackers created accounts and debit cards for money mules to withdraw stolen funds.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jornt v.d. Wiel EP 35 Details

“They created all these accounts for their money mules.”

Jornt v.d. Wiel · offsets 33932–33986

Barnaby Jack USES ATM jackpotting

Barnaby demonstrated dispensing all cash from an ATM's cassettes, which he called jackpotting.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 35 Details

“The most astonishing thing he could do was dispense all of the cash from all the cassettes which he called jackpotting.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 8651–8770

Barnaby Jack USES ATM remote access

Barnaby remotely controlled an ATM after bypassing its remote-login authentication and replacing its firmware.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 35 Details

“Barnaby could now remote-control an ATM with his own custom firmware”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 10662–10730

Toucan USES ATM jackpotting

Toucan provided a menu that allowed an operator to select cassettes and dispense their money.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jornt v.d. Wiel EP 35 Details

“you basically get into the god-mode menu because you can choose from which cassettes you want the money”

Jornt v.d. Wiel · offsets 18963–19066

Carbanak USES Metasploit

After Carbanak signatures became known, the attackers switched to the off-the-shelf tool Metasploit.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 35 Details

“they started using off-the-shelf tools such as Metasploit and Cobalt Strike”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 36337–36412

Carbanak VARIANT_OF Carber

Jornt says Carbanak was based on malware called Carber.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jornt v.d. Wiel EP 35 Details

“it was based on malware called Carber”

Jornt v.d. Wiel · offsets 28354–28391

Tinker Secor ASSOCIATED_WITH penetration testing

Tinker identifies himself as a penetration tester who tests clients' security by hacking computers and breaking into buildings.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I am a penetration tester or Red Teamer”

Tinker Secor · offsets 2619–2658

Tinker Secor ASSOCIATED_WITH Red Team

Tinker says he is a Red Teamer depending on the engagement.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I am a penetration tester or Red Teamer”

Tinker Secor · offsets 2619–2658

Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries

Jack says the show is made by him.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 36 Details

“This show is made by me, the President of D-Corp, Jack Rhysider.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 63218–63282

Tinker Secor EXPLOITS unquoted service path

Tinker found an unquoted service path and attempted to use it to execute a malicious program with system privileges.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“the one that worked was unquoted service path”

Tinker Secor · offsets 49394–49439

“it will run your program as in this sense, system”

Tinker Secor · offsets 50079–50128

Tinker Secor MEMBER_OF United States Marine Corps

Tinker says he used to be a Sergeant in the Marine Corps.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I used to be a Sergeant in the Marine Corps”

Tinker Secor · offsets 37267–37310

Tinker Secor USES privilege escalation

Tinker includes privilege escalation in his standard approach and attempts to escalate to system level.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“escalation privileges, actions and target”

Tinker Secor · offsets 7865–7906

Tinker Secor USES Active Directory

Tinker queried Active Directory and later extracted users, groups, host names, and other domain information.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I logged into SYSVOL on the main controller, pulled all of Active Directory.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 27953–28029

Tinker Secor USES Meterpreter

Tinker's payload opened multiple Meterpreter sessions on the finance computer.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“Then I see Meterpreter Session Two, Session Three, Session – it popped eight shells.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 56345–56429

Tinker Secor USES single sign-on

Tinker accessed the company's single sign-on environment using recovered credentials and investigated its applications.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“Get into their single sign-on, their internet.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 30292–30338

Tinker Secor USES SYSVOL

Tinker used a stolen user's credentials to access SYSVOL and retrieve domain scripts and configuration information.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I logged into SYSVOL on the main controller”

Tinker Secor · offsets 27953–27996

“You can mount SYSVOL and get all the group post preference.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 28031–28090

Tinker Secor USES social engineering

Tinker impersonated IT over the phone to persuade an employee to disclose a Citrix MFA code.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I lie to them and then I say hey, I’m somebody else from IT”

Tinker Secor · offsets 27800–27865

“She read it to me. I typed it in within the minute”

Tinker Secor · offsets 35819–35870

Tinker Secor USES Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti

Tinker's password-cracking rig consisted of eight Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti cards.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“It was eight Nvidia GTX 1080 TIs mounted in a 4U Rack server.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 22178–22239

Tinker Secor USES persistence

Tinker lists persistence as a possible phase of his methodology and later says he obtained persistence on a finance computer.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I get persistence”

Tinker Secor · offsets 56573–56590

Tinker Secor USES lateral movement

Tinker includes lateral movement in his standard penetration-testing approach and later says he needs to move onto servers.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“initial breach, lateral movement, pivot”

Tinker Secor · offsets 7824–7863

Tinker Secor USES pass the hash

Tinker attempted to authenticate to other computers using the recovered local administrator hash.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“First thing I try to do is pass the hash which just uses the actual hash as a password.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 46644–46731

Tinker Secor USES Net-NTLMv2

Tinker collected Net-NTLMv2 hashes from Responder activity.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“I pulled down these hashes. Again, they’re Net-NTLMv2 hashes.”

Tinker Secor · offsets 22012–22074

Tinker Secor USES GPU password-cracking rig

Tinker used an offsite GPU password-cracking rig to process hashes collected with Responder.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 36 Details

“He loads these up into his GPU password-cracking rig”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 22081–22133

Tinker Secor USES reverse shell

Tinker deployed a PowerShell reverse shell to obtain remote access to a finance workstation.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Tinker Secor EP 36 Details

“my PowerShell, reverse shell”

Tinker Secor · offsets 51978–52006

“I’ve got a little thumb drive with my malware on it”

Tinker Secor · offsets 53938–53989