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Andrew Finch swatting incident INVOLVES Casey
Casey encouraged Tyler to make the swatting call and offered him $1.50 to do it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“Casey dared Tyler to call 911 on Shane and said he’s give him $1.50 if he’d do it”
JW swatting incident INVOLVES phone-number spoofing
The perpetrator spoofed JW's phone number when making the false emergency report.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“someone spoofed his phone number”
Andrew Finch swatting incident INVOLVES Andrew Finch
Andrew Finch was the man killed during the police response to a false 911 call.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“His name was Andrew Finch”
Andrew Finch swatting incident LEADS_TO Andrew Finch
The police response led to Andrew Finch being shot and killed.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“that one single bullet killed him. His name was Andrew Finch”
Mark Herring swatting incident LEADS_TO Mark Herring
The episode states that Mark Herring suffered a fatal heart attack during the police response and died.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“As he stood up, on the other side, he had a heart attack and collapsed”
“Mark Herring died from the heart attack”
Shane Sonderman USES Account takeover
The broader scheme included attempts to gain control of social-media accounts through password attacks and SIM-swapping.
Explicit Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“hacking into accounts and changing passwords, SIM-swapping people to try to gain access to an account”
Shane Sonderman USES Swatting
Shane Sonderman and a UK teenager used fake emergency calls to harass victims and pressure them to surrender accounts.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“They worked together to try to harass people and get their accounts”
Mark Herring USES @Tennessee
Mark chose @Tennessee as his Twitter username because he lived in and loved Tennessee.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“he chose the username @Tennessee because he lived in and loved the state of Tennessee”
Mark Herring USES bulletin board systems
Mark Herring used bulletin board systems and connected to his first bulletin board in 1979.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Operator1 EP 106 Details
“I actually connected to my first bulletin board until March of 1979”
JW created and actively used a Twitter account under the two-letter username JW.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“you started your Twitter account when?”
“He created it just months after Twitter launched”
Shane Sonderman USES online harassment
Shane Sonderman and his associate conducted harassment campaigns against account holders.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“Together, they targeted six people with harassment campaigns to get peoples’ accounts in order to sell them”
Shane Sonderman USES Grindr
The episode says the attackers used Grindr to contact people near a woman they were harassing and direct someone to her address.
Derived Confidence 92% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“They got on Grindr, a dating app, and connected with some people in her town”
JW obtained and used the same short handle on Instagram.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“He was able to snag the same handle, JW, for his Instagram”
Mark Herring USES Twitter
Mark registered for a Twitter account in 2007.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 106 Details
“Mark registered for an account at the site”
Alethe Denis ASSOCIATED_WITH Dragonfly Security
Alethe says she began consulting through Dragonfly Security and built a local client base.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“I started consulting through Dragonfly Security”
Alethe Denis ASSOCIATED_WITH Social Engineering Capture the Flag
Alethe competed in the Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest and later won it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“Then they announced that I won”
Alethe Denis MEMBER_OF Critical Insight
Alethe says she works for Critical Insight, where she focuses on expanding social-engineering engagements.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“I work for a company called Critical Insight.”
Alethe Denis OTHER Defcon black badge
Alethe received a DEF CON black badge after winning the social-engineering contest.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Host EP 107 Details
“Defcon’s gonna give her a black badge.”
Alethe Denis USES Google dorking
Alethe uses Google dorking to find documents and information supporting a pretext.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“Usually this involves a lot of Google dorking”
Critical Insight USES social engineering
Critical Insight provides social-engineering engagements to clients.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 107 Details
“as well as social engineering engagements”
Alethe Denis USES Open Source Intelligence Gathering
Alethe uses public-record research and other open sources to investigate people, properties, and target companies.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 107 Details
“This is where she picked up some OSINT skills.”
Alethe Denis USES LinkedIn
Alethe uses LinkedIn to identify employees of target companies during OSINT research.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 107 Details
“going to the company’s LinkedIn and seeing who works there”
Alethe Denis USES phishing
Alethe conducts phishing engagements as part of her social-engineering work.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“to do more vishing, phishing”
Alethe Denis USES physical social engineering
Alethe says she performs onsite physical social-engineering engagements.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“more actual social engineering physicals where we’re doing the engagements onsite”
Alethe Denis USES penetration testing
Alethe discusses social-engineering and security-assessment work in the context of penetration testing, though she says she initially lacked full-scale penetration-testing skills.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Alethe Denis EP 107 Details
“I was lacking a lot of the full-scale pen-testing skills at that point”