Nightmare ASSOCIATED_WITH DDoS attack
Nightmare was reported to be among the marketplaces receiving DDoS attacks.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“two other leading marketplaces, Empire and Nightmare, were also getting Ddossed”
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Nightmare ASSOCIATED_WITH DDoS attack
Nightmare was reported to be among the marketplaces receiving DDoS attacks.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“two other leading marketplaces, Empire and Nightmare, were also getting Ddossed”
Empire ASSOCIATED_WITH DDoS attack
Empire was reported to be among the marketplaces receiving DDoS attacks.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“two other leading marketplaces, Empire and Nightmare, were also getting Ddossed”
Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says the show is created and written by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“This show is created by me”
Silk Road DEVELOPED_BY Ross Ulbricht
Jack identifies Ross Ulbricht as the founder of Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“Ross Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road”
AlphaBay DEVELOPED_BY Alexandre Cazès
Jack says Alexandre Cazes created AlphaBay.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“Alexandre Cazes, he created another dark marketplace called AlphaBay”
J-CODE INVOLVES Federal Bureau of Investigation
J-CODE was described as the FBI’s flagship task force against dark marketplaces and opioid trafficking.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“J-CODE stands for Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement and was going into full effect”
Operation Disarray INVOLVES Federal Bureau of Investigation
Operation Disarray coordinated FBI action against darknet vendors in the United States.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“Operation Disarray’s goal was to coordinate takedown of multiple dark market vendors who were in the US”
Operation SaboTor INVOLVES Federal Bureau of Investigation
Operation SaboTor was a J-CODE mission involving the FBI and international law-enforcement agencies against darknet drug sellers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“the FBI’s J-CODE team ... were onto their next mission. This time they called it Operation SaboTor”
Dream Market shutdown INVOLVES Dream Market
The Dream Market shutdown incident involved a notice that the market would close and move to a partner platform.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“the market would be shutting down on April 30th but it would be moving to a partner platform”
J-CODE INVOLVES Drug Enforcement Administration
J-CODE brought together the DEA as part of a task force targeting online opioid trafficking.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jeff Sessions EP 58 Details
“By bringing together the DEA, our Safe Streets Task Forces, our drug-trafficking task forces, our healthcare fraud special agents and other assets, and the FBI”
Dream Market RELATED_TO Silk Road
Dream Market was modeled to look and operate like Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“The Dream Market was stood up pretty quickly and it was modeled to look and act just like Silk Road”
Gal Vallerius SAME_AS OxyMonster
The DEA found a matching private PGP key and Jack says this proved Gal Vallerius was OxyMonster.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“This proved that Gal Vallerius was OxyMonster”
OxyMonster USES PGP
A private PGP key labeled OxyMonster was found on Gal Vallerius’s laptop and matched the key on the OxyMonster account.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“they found a private PGP key labeled OxyMonster”
OxyMonster USES Evolution
Jack says OxyMonster was a moderator on the Evolution market.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“OxyMonster was a mod on the now-defunct Evolution dark market”
Gal Vallerius USES Bitcoin
Gal possessed Bitcoin and agreed to forfeit Bitcoin proceeds from his darknet activities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“He would also forfeit all of the Bitcoin proceeds he had amassed through his darknet activities”
Gal Vallerius USES Hansa
Gal was described as a vendor on Hansa, although Jack notes that the username connection was not fully clear.
Uncertain Confidence 88% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“Gal was a vendor there, too. Now, the details are not clear here because it seems it was a different username”
Drug Enforcement Administration USES Elliptical
Jack says Elliptical was among the tools used by the DEA to trace Bitcoin transactions.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“one is called Chain Analysis and the other is called Elliptical”
Drug Enforcement Administration USES Chain Analysis
Jack says the DEA used Chain Analysis to trace Bitcoin transactions in criminal cases.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“they’re being used by the DEA, FBI, IRS, Europol, to trace Bitcoin transactions”
Gal Vallerius USES Silk Road 2
Prosecutors found connections linking Gal to Silk Road 2 under another username.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“connections of him being on Silk Road, Silk Road 2, AlphaBay, Hansa”
Jack says Kyle Enos sold fentanyl on AlphaBay.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“he was selling fentanyl on AlphaBay”
Gal Vallerius USES AlphaBay
Prosecutors found connections linking Gal to AlphaBay.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“connections of him being on Silk Road, Silk Road 2, AlphaBay, Hansa”
Kyle Enos USES Dream Market
Jack says Kyle Enos sold fentanyl on Dream Market.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“selling fentanyl on AlphaBay, Hansa, and the Dream”
Jack says Kyle Enos sold fentanyl on Hansa.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“selling fentanyl on AlphaBay, Hansa, and the Dream”
OxyMonster USES TradeRoute
OxyMonster maintained an account and sold drugs on TradeRoute.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“check out OxyMonster’s account on TradeRoute”
OxyMonster USES localbitcoins.com
The DEA observed OxyMonster sending Bitcoin to localbitcoins.com fifteen times to cash out.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“OxyMonster sent his Bitcoin to a website called localbitcoins.com. He did this fifteen times.”