Cooper Quinton MEMBER_OF Threat Lab
Cooper Quinton identifies himself as a senior staff technologist on the EFF Threat Lab.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“I am a senior staff technologist on EFF’s Threat Lab.”
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Cooper Quinton MEMBER_OF Threat Lab
Cooper Quinton identifies himself as a senior staff technologist on the EFF Threat Lab.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“I am a senior staff technologist on EFF’s Threat Lab.”
Irina Petrushova MEMBER_OF Respublika
Irina Petrushova was the editor in chief of Respublika.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“Irina Petrushova who is the Editor in Chief of Independent Newspaper which is formally out of Kazakhstan called Respublika.”
Threat Lab PART_OF Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Threat Lab is a project within the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“Electronic Frontier Foundation has a new project called Threat Lab.”
Dark Caracal TARGETS Vietnam
The campaign also targeted at least one Vietnamese cigarette importer and had victims in Vietnam.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 38 Details
“Then they found another victim; a Vietnamese cigarette importer”
“we’ve got victims in Lebanon, Kazakhstan, the United States, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Jordan, Nepal, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam.”
Dark Caracal TARGETS Syria
The investigation found infections among people near the border of Lebanon and Syria.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“on the border of Lebanon and Syria”
Dark Caracal TARGETS Lebanon
Most infections discovered in the expanded investigation involved people in Lebanon or near the Lebanon-Syria border.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“most of the infections are infections of people in Lebanon or on the border of Lebanon and Syria.”
Dark Caracal TARGETS Kazakhstan
The campaign included victims and earlier targets connected with Kazakhstan, although the researchers questioned whether Kazakhstan alone explained the operation.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“In this map we’ve got victims in Lebanon, Kazakhstan”
Dark Caracal USES Trojanized applications
The mobile malware masqueraded as Trojanized copies of legitimate encrypted-messaging applications.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“The malware is disguised as copies of WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Tor, and Threema.”
Lebanon USES Hacking Team
The episode says leaked Hacking Team emails showed Lebanon trying to hire Hacking Team for hacking work.
Attributed Confidence 95% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“Lebanon trying to hire Hacking Team to do some hacking”
Kazakhstan USES Hacking Team
The episode says leaked Hacking Team emails showed Kazakhstan trying to hire Hacking Team for hacking work.
Attributed Confidence 95% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“Kazakhstan trying to hire Hacking Team to do some hacking.”
Dark Caracal USES secureandroid.info
Attackers used secureandroid.info to distribute backdoored, Trojanized copies of messaging applications.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“The attackers have actually set up a website called secureandroid.info that has the back door to Trojanized copies of all of these apps.”
Kazakhstan USES Arcanum Global Intelligence
According to leaked government emails, Kazakhstan's president contracted Arcanum Global Intelligence for a surveillance and cyber-operation mission.
Attributed Confidence 98% · Cooper Quinton EP 38 Details
“the President of Kazakhstan had taken out a contract with a private intelligence company called Arcanum Global Intelligence”
Shane Lawson ASSOCIATED_WITH DEF CON
Shane Lawson presented a hard-drive-destruction talk at the same DEF CON conference.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“This one was presented by Shane Lawson, Bruce Potter, and Deviant Olaf”
Daniel Beckwitt ASSOCIATED_WITH Askia Khafra
Askia worked for Daniel digging and expanding the underground tunnels; the episode presents this association as part of the account of the fatal fire.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“A twenty-year old man named Askia Khafra”
“Askia got to work digging”
Deviant Olaf ASSOCIATED_WITH DEF CON
Deviant Olaf presented a hard-drive-destruction talk at DEF CON.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“This one was presented by Shane Lawson, Bruce Potter, and Deviant Olaf”
Bruce Potter ASSOCIATED_WITH DEF CON
Bruce Potter presented a hard-drive-destruction talk at DEF CON.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“This one was presented by Shane Lawson, Bruce Potter, and Deviant Olaf”
Douglas Hart ASSOCIATED_WITH Daniel Beckwitt
Douglas worked with Daniel digging and expanding the tunnels for about six months.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“Douglas and his dog worked down in the tunnels, digging out more space and expanding their reach for about six months”
Daniel Beckwitt ASSOCIATED_WITH ShmooCon
Daniel won access to Shmoocon and presented his hard-drive-destruction research there.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he got to present [00:15:00] his entire experimentation process on how he did it at Shmoocon 2012”
Daniel Beckwitt ASSOCIATED_WITH DEF CON
Daniel traveled to Las Vegas to give a Bitcoin talk at DEF CON, using the handle Skunkworks.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“travel to Las Vegas, Nevada and give a talk about Bitcoin at Defcon”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Hard-drive destruction
Daniel developed and demonstrated methods for physically destroying hard drives as part of the Shmoocon challenge.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he won the prize; free tickets to Shmoocon”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Wi-Fi
Daniel installed Wi-Fi in the underground tunnels for Askia and for the tunnel living space.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“He rigged it up with WiFi and brought a TV down there”
Shane Lawson USES Ethernet
The proposed remote-destruction system used an Ethernet connection.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Shane Lawson EP 39 Details
“with an Arduino and an Ethernet connection”
Daniel Beckwitt USES hard-drive anti-forensics
Daniel presented his work under the title “hard drive anti-forensics.”
Explicit Confidence 99% · Daniel Beckwitt EP 39 Details
“today I’m going to be talking to you about hard drive anti-forensics”
Daniel Beckwitt USES Bitcoin
Daniel used Bitcoin by mining it and later trading it.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 39 Details
“he started trading it like stocks to try to get more”
Shane Lawson USES Arduino
The proposed remote-destruction system used an Arduino to ignite a propane torch.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Shane Lawson EP 39 Details
“lighting the propane torch remotely with an Arduino”