Arya Ebrahami USES reallygoodfakes.com
Arya used reallygoodfakes.com as a source for learning how to make fake IDs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“he finds this website called reallygoodfakes.com”
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Arya Ebrahami USES reallygoodfakes.com
Arya used reallygoodfakes.com as a source for learning how to make fake IDs.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“he finds this website called reallygoodfakes.com”
Arya Ebrahami USES Tor
Arya accessed Silk Road through Tor, including from his phone while at school.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I used to access Silk Road from Tor on my phone all the time”
Arya Ebrahami USES Off-the-Record Messaging
Arya used the OTR plugin for Jabber communications, although he later learned investigators had obtained the logs in clear text.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“they had logs of my Jabber conversations with the OTR plugin”
TeamViewer USES remote desktop access
TeamViewer provided screen-sharing and remote control of Arya’s computer.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“They started a screen-sharing session”
“I gave him control through the TeamViewer”
Arya Ebrahami USES Tails
Arya learned to use Tails as part of improving his operational security.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“He was learning how to encrypt his hard drives and use Tails”
Arya Ebrahami USES noveltyids.co
Arya operated and promoted noveltyids.co as his clearnet fake-ID website after Silk Road was taken down.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“Here’s my Clearnet website. That one was called noveltyids.co”
Arya Ebrahami USES Agora
Arya used Agora to buy Xanax after Silk Road was taken down.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“Agora was one of them. So, I’m buying all my friends these Xanax”
Arya Ebrahami USES TeamViewer
Arya used TeamViewer to give a competitor remote access to his computer and web server.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 104 Details
“the two set up TeamViewer, a way for this other guy to see Arya’s computer”
Arya Ebrahami USES TrueCrypt
Arya used TrueCrypt partitions to store sensitive files and Bitcoin-wallet information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“he goes through all of my TrueCrypt volumes and he saves all of my fucking information”
Arya Ebrahami USES Jabber
Arya used Jabber to communicate with AlphaBay’s administrator for business purposes.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I would talk to admin on Jabber”
Ted Danzig USES Silk Road
Ted Danzig was identified by Arya as the other fake-ID vendor on Silk Road.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“There was two vendors on Silk Road for fake IDs. So, there was Ted Danzig and then there was me”
Arya Ebrahami USES Coinbase
Arya sent Bitcoin to Coinbase and cashed it out rather than tumbling it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Arya Ebrahami EP 104 Details
“I was doing the same thing I was doing with Silk Road, which was sending it to a Coinbase account and cashing out”
Phil Zimmermann ASSOCIATED_WITH PGP
Phil Zimmermann is identified as the creator of PGP.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“the creator of PGP”
MPC ASSOCIATED_WITH James Gillespie
Joseph identifies James Gillespie as one of the brothers running MPC, while noting that his brother was also involved.
Attributed Confidence 88% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“James Gillespie and his brother as well”
ANOM was secretly presented as an encrypted phone while functioning as an FBI honeypot.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 105 Details
“It was a honeypot created entirely by the FBI to snoop, spy, and gather incriminating evidence from criminals.”
Ennetcom server misconfiguration ASSOCIATED_WITH Ennetcom
Joseph attributes the ability to decrypt Ennetcom communications to a possible server-side encryption misconfiguration or implementation issue.
Uncertain Confidence 95% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“it appears that there was some sort of misconfiguration with how Ennetcom encrypted these communications”
MPC ASSOCIATED_WITH Martin Kok
Joseph reports that MPC worked with Martin Kok on branding and advertising before Kok was assassinated; he further says the assassination was reportedly carried out with MPC's consent and help.
Attributed Confidence 84% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“this was an assassination with the consent and the help of MPC”
Silent Circle DEVELOPED_BY Phil Zimmermann
Joseph says Silent Circle was made by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“that is made by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP”
Phantom Secure DEVELOPED_BY Vince Ramos
Joseph states that Vince Ramos created Phantom Secure.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“The person who created Phantom Secure was Vince Ramos.”
Sky fake-device operation INVOLVES Sky ECC
The operation involved fake Sky devices or apps being introduced into European markets.
Attributed Confidence 94% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“somebody introduced fake Sky devices to the markets in Europe”
Operation Venetic INVOLVES Encrochat
Joseph says Encrochat data was placed under the Operation Venetic umbrella in the UK, with some uncertainty.
Uncertain Confidence 90% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“when the Encrochat data came in, I believe they put it under that umbrella as well”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES Honeypot
The campaign used ANOM as a covert honeypot to collect evidence from users.
Derived Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 105 Details
“a honeypot created entirely by the FBI”
Encrochat malware operation INVOLVES malicious update
French police used a malicious update distributed through an Encrochat update server.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“pushed this malicious update to the Encrochat devices”
Operation Trojan Shield INVOLVES ANOM
Operation Trojan Shield was the FBI operation involving ANOM phones.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 105 Details
“This was dubbed Operation Trojan Shield in the FBI, and their ANOM phones”
Encrochat malware operation INVOLVES spyware
The operation involved malware that silently copied messages and potentially GPS data from Encrochat devices.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Joseph Cox EP 105 Details
“this piece of malware, it would silently send copies of the messages sent and received”