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Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack
INVOLVES
TeaMp0isoN
TeaMp0isoN was reported as having jammed the UK counter-terrorism hotline with computer-generated calls.
Attributed
Confidence 96%
· Host6
EP 109
Details
“TeaMp0isoN is an anarchist, hacktivist group, and it began by jamming the UK’s counter-terrorism hotline”
Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack
INVOLVES
PBX
TriCk compromised a PBX server based in the Philippines as part of the Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“He compromised a PBX server that was based in the Philippines”
Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack
INVOLVES
Asterisk
Asterisk was used to script the repeated calls against the Anti-Terrorist Hotline.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“he wrote a script using Asterisk”
Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack
INVOLVES
DDoS
The Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack was a denial-of-service attack using repeated computer-generated calls.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“it’s a denial-of-service against the anti-terror hotline”
Anti-Terrorist Hotline attack
INVOLVES
caller ID spoofing
The attack spoofed caller IDs in a loop and generated different caller IDs repeatedly.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“spoofed caller IDs in a loop and randomly generated the caller IDs”
MLT
MEMBER_OF
TeaMp0isoN
MLT joined TeaMp0isoN and was asked to co-lead the group.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“I was one of those people. Then he went around to ask if I wanted to help co-lead the group with him.”
TriCk
MEMBER_OF
TeaMp0isoN
TriCk founded and led TeaMp0isoN after converting poison.org into the hacker group.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“TriCk wanted to take it up a notch and decided to convert his poison.org website into a hacker group called TeaMp0isoN.”
TriCk
MEMBER_OF
ISIS
After moving to Syria, Junaid Hussain joined ISIS.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“Junaid Hussain had joined ISIS, a terrorist organization”
MLT
MEMBER_OF
0xffff
MLT is the founder and an active member of the 0xffff hacking group.
Derived
Confidence 90%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“recently started a new hacking group called 0xffff”
Sally Jones
MEMBER_OF
ISIS
Sally Jones went to Syria, reunited with Junaid, and was described as participating in ISIS activities.
Derived
Confidence 88%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“Sally Jones decided to go to Syria, too”
TeaMp0isoN
TARGETS
BlackBerry
TeaMp0isoN targeted BlackBerry because it cooperated with police during the London riots by providing BBM-user information.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“As a result, TriCk decided to attack BlackBerry.”
Junaid Hussain drone-strike incident
TARGETS
TriCk
The later US drone strike targeted and killed Junaid Hussain in Syria.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“Junaid Hussain was killed on August 25, 2015”
TeaMp0isoN
TARGETS
English Defense League
TeaMp0isoN members targeted the English Defense League, including its website and donor database.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“The first major hack that I did with TriCk was the English Defense League.”
TeaMp0isoN
USES
social engineering
TeaMp0isoN used telephone social engineering while impersonating Google employees.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“We called them all up, pretending to be from Google”
TriCk
USES
malicious APK
According to an uncertain rumor relayed by MLT, someone tricked Junaid into downloading a malicious APK to obtain his location.
Uncertain
Confidence 76%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“someone tricked him into downloading a malicious APK file onto his Android phone”
TeaMp0isoN
USES
WordPress
After compromising employee Gmail accounts, the attackers used the WordPress password-reset process to access the BlackBerry blog.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“this BlackBerry blog was just a WordPress site”
TeaMp0isoN
USES
password reset attack
The attackers requested Gmail password resets and persuaded employees to disclose the received security codes.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“we’d just do a password reset request on their Gmail account”
MLT
USES
bug bounty hunting
MLT said he spent about five years doing bug bounty hunting.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“I was doing a lot of bug bounty hunting”
MLT
USES
exploit development
MLT shifted from bug bounty hunting to zero-day exploit development and selling the resulting exploits.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· MLT
EP 109
Details
“I’ve kinda shifted my focus recently to zero-day exploit development”
TeaMp0isoN
USES
phishing
TeaMp0isoN used a phishing email as the initial access method in the hotel compromise involving P. Diddy.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“to get into this hotel’s network, it started with a phishing e-mail”
TeaMp0isoN
USES
Website defacement
Website defacement was an early objective of TeaMp0isoN's attacks.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 109
Details
“Their early objectives were simply to try to deface their target websites.”
SpamIt
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Glavmed
Damon McCoy's analysis concluded that SpamIt was a fork of the Glavmed databases and that both programs were operated by the same people.
Attributed
Confidence 98%
· Damon McCoy
EP 110
Details
“SpamIt is just a fork of the Glavmed databases and that in fact, these two are operated by the same people.”
Rustock
ATTRIBUTED_TO
Cosma
Rustock is attributed directly to Cosma as its main botmaster.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 110
Details
“Cosma, Rustock’s main botmaster”
ChronoPay
DEVELOPED_BY
Igor Gusev
Igor Gusev set up ChronoPay with Pavel Vrublevsky in 2003.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 110
Details
“he had set up a payment processor in Russia with his business partner at the time, Pavel Vrublevsky. They called it ChronoPay”
ChronoPay
DEVELOPED_BY
Pavel Vrublevsky
Pavel Vrublevsky was Igor Gusev's business partner in setting up ChronoPay.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 110
Details
“with his business partner at the time, Pavel Vrublevsky. They called it ChronoPay”