Ghost Exodus MEMBER_OF Insane Masterminds Crew
Ghost Exodus says he was originally a member of the Insane Masterminds Crew.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“I originally was a member of the Insane Masterminds Crew.”
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Ghost Exodus MEMBER_OF Insane Masterminds Crew
Ghost Exodus says he was originally a member of the Insane Masterminds Crew.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“I originally was a member of the Insane Masterminds Crew.”
Immortal MEMBER_OF Electronik Tribulation Army
Immortal is described as a new recruit and member of the Electronik Tribulation Army.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“There was a new recruit in the ETA who went by the moniker Immortal.”
Ghost Exodus SAME_AS Jesse McGraw
Jack states that Ghost Exodus was Jesse McGraw.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“Ghost Exodus was Jesse McGraw.”
Rxbot is described as the botnet used to add compromised computers to Ghost Exodus's botnet.
Derived Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“The botnet he was using was called Rxbot.”
Fixer USES denial-of-service attack
Wesley says Fixer conducted denial-of-service attacks against his website.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Wesley McGrew EP 70 Details
“he was the main bad actor along those lines, along the harassment lines”
“denial-of-service attacks against my website”
Electronik Tribulation Army USES SQL injection
Ghost Exodus says ETA initially practiced SQL injections.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“learning SQL injections”
Ghost Exodus USES brute-force password cracking
Ghost Exodus used Ophcrack's password-cracking process to access clinic computers.
Derived Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“He would put the Ophcrack CD in the tray, reboot the computer, wait for Ophcrack to find a password”
Ghost Exodus USES Ophcrack
Ghost Exodus used Ophcrack to obtain passwords from locked Windows computers.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“He looked up how he could get into a locked computer and found a tool called Ophcrack.”
Ghost Exodus USES LogMeIn
Ghost Exodus says he used browser-based LogMeIn to remotely access the HVAC server.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“I decided to use the browser-based LogMeIn.”
Wesley McGrew USES Open-source intelligence
Wesley McGrew used open-source intelligence and image searches to identify the facility shown in the screenshots.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Wesley McGrew EP 70 Details
“I started doing image searches and open-source intelligence based off the pictures”
Ophcrack USES brute-force password cracking
Ophcrack is characterized as a brute-force password-cracking method for Windows password hashes.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“It’s sort of a brute-force password-cracking method”
Electronik Tribulation Army USES phishing
Ghost Exodus says ETA initially practiced phishing.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“and phishing”
Electronik Tribulation Army USES cross-site scripting
Ghost Exodus says ETA initially practiced cross-site scripting.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“and cross-site scripting”
Electronik Tribulation Army USES botnet
The episode describes ETA and Ghost Exodus as developing and using botnets.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“Ghost Exodus also had an interest in computers”
“He started playing around with botnets”
Ghost Exodus USES denial-of-service attack
Ghost Exodus says he used the bots to launch attacks and later used the botnet to attack targets.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“I thought of doing was infecting as many computers as possible in order to launch this botnet attack”
“On several occasions, I attacked 94chan with them.”
Ghost Exodus USES Rxbot
The botnet Ghost Exodus used in the clinic was identified as Rxbot.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 70 Details
“The botnet he was using was called Rxbot.”
My Country ASSOCIATED_WITH Firefox
Jack says the Firefox browser on Red Star OS was renamed My Country.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“It has Firefox on it but they renamed it and it’s called My Country instead”
Red Star OS ASSOCIATED_WITH Linux
Jack describes Red Star OS as a modified Linux system.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“This is actually a modified Linux system”
North Korea ASSOCIATED_WITH government information monopoly
Alex says the North Korean government's power depends on maintaining an information monopoly.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Alex Gladstein EP 71 Details
“their entire architecture of power relies on having an information monopoly”
North Korean hacker groups ATTRIBUTED_TO North Korea
The episode attributes the hacking activity of these groups to North Korea and its government.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Yeonmi Park EP 71 Details
“North Korea does not just only have a nuclear weapons to threat other countries, but they have a strong army of hackers”
Yeonmi Park AUTHORED In Order to Live
Jack identifies In Order to Live as Yeonmi Park’s book about her life and escape from North Korea.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Yeonmi Park EP 71 Details
“She has a book out that talks about her life in North Korea and her escape. Her book is called In Order to Live”
Flash Drives for Freedom DEVELOPED_BY Alex Gladstein
Jack says Alex developed the plan that became the Flash Drives for Freedom project.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“Alex developed a plan to sneak USB drives into North Korea. They called the project Flash Drives for Freedom”
Flash Drives for Freedom INVOLVES removable-media information smuggling
The campaign smuggles information into North Korea using removable storage media.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 71 Details
“There are people who are smuggling information into North Korea”
Alex Gladstein MEMBER_OF Human Rights Foundation
Alex identifies himself as the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alex Gladstein EP 71 Details
“I’m the chief strategy officer for the Human Rights Foundation”
Yeonmi Park REFERENCES 1984
Yeonmi compares North Korean propaganda and indoctrination to George Orwell’s 1984.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Yeonmi Park EP 71 Details
“in George Orwell’s 1984”