Person
Cameron Harrison
person:cameron_harrison
Also: Cam, Kilobit
Guest whose criminal carding and phishing activities are described in the episode.
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Cameron Harrison
SAME_AS
Kilobit
Cameron Harrison used Kilobit as his online alias and named his computer Kilobit; the episode presents the alias as belonging to him.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“Cam had been careful on Carder.su. He registered as the user Kilobit”
“Cam had named his computer Kilobit and this was the same name he used on the Carder.su forums.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Sub7
As a high-school student, Cam used Sub7 to access a classmate’s computer and take his work.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“He used Sub7 which is a Trojan to attack the guy’s computer”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Counterfeit Library
Cam became a regular on Counterfeit Library and learned how to make fake IDs there.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“He became a regular on Counterfeit Library”
Cameron Harrison
USES
carding
Cam participated in carding, including receiving and cashing out stolen credit-card information.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“I took the $2,000 of the carded Western Union.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Western Union
Cam used Western Union to receive transfers funded with stolen credit cards and later to cash out stolen card details.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“Cam would then go down to any Western Union and pick up the cash.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
MSR
Cam used an MSR magstripe encoder to make IDs and later to write stolen card data onto physical cards.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“I wanted my IDs to scan, so I wanted an MSR.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
full
Cam obtained and used stolen full-information card records, including CVV, identity, and account details.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“I was able to get my hands on a full.”
“It’s basically a CVV, a card with a CVV; the expiration but also the name, address, phone number”
Cameron Harrison
USES
eGold
Cam used eGold to send the Kosovo group its share of money from cashing out stolen cards.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“To do this, he used a service called eGold.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
social engineering
Cam social-engineered banks by posing as cardholders and changing the phone numbers and addresses associated with accounts.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“he figured out ways to social engineer some of the banks connected to the cards”
Cameron Harrison
USES
ATM cash-out
Cam regularly used counterfeit cards to withdraw stolen money from ATMs.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“From then on, cashing ATMs became a regular part of his routine.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
dc.exe
Cam bought dc.exe because it formatted card data so it could be written correctly to magstripes.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“They were selling a program and the program was called dc.exe.”
“The software worked; it encoded the track data onto the cards perfectly.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
phishing
Cam learned and conducted phishing campaigns to steal account and payment information.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“He found someone who would teach him how to phish”
Cameron Harrison
USES
credential phishing website
Cam hosted a fake PayPal login site that collected victims’ credentials and payment details.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“The link would take them to Cam’s website which looked exactly like PayPal”
Cameron Harrison
TARGETS
PayPal
Cam’s phishing campaign impersonated PayPal and collected PayPal credentials.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“Cam’s phishing scam was to tell people they needed to update their account details on PayPal.”
Cameron Harrison
TARGETS
eBay
Cam used stolen PayPal and eBay logins and targeted users with messages related to their eBay auctions.
Explicit
Confidence 97%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“With that, Cam would have their logins to PayPal and eBay.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Apache
Cam used publicly known Apache-related exploits to compromise web servers for hosting phishing pages.
Explicit
Confidence 96%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“We’d just find some popular public exploit at the time for Apache or whatever it was”
Cameron Harrison
USES
DarkMailer
After leaving jail, Cam installed DarkMailer on cyber-café computers and used them to send spam.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“I turned – I had DarkMailer installed on all of them and were blasting out spam.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
network scanning
Cam scanned IP ranges and local networks to locate systems associated with small businesses and point-of-sale systems.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“now that IP; I’m gonna scan that whole range.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Nmap
Cam used Nmap to scan IP ranges for open ports on small-business networks.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“used the Nmap or something to scan and find out what open ports were there.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
RDP
Cam targeted point-of-sale computers that exposed RDP for remote access.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“one port in particular he was hoping that was open was 3389 RDP.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Hydra
Cam used Hydra to brute-force passwords for RDP-accessible point-of-sale computers.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“Hydra tried a bunch of passwords and eventually found one that worked.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
brute-force password guessing
Cam used brute-force password guessing against RDP-connected cash-register systems.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“he would unleash Hydra on it and try tons of different passwords to try to log in.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Memory scraping
Cam searched the RAM of point-of-sale computers for payment-card data matching Luhn’s algorithm.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“set up your rerun, the point of sale software, and a debugger, so that way they can get – scan through the memory address ranges”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Luhn’s algorithm
Cam used Luhn’s algorithm to identify likely credit-card numbers in memory.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“look for something to match Luhn’s algorithm. That’s the way to identify a credit card number.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Track 2 data
Cam extracted Track 2 data from payment-card information found in memory.
Explicit
Confidence 98%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“anything in between that would be your Track 2.”
Cameron Harrison
USES
Carder.su
Cam used Carder.su under the alias Kilobit and participated in its carding community.
Explicit
Confidence 99%
· Jack Rhysider
EP 85
Details
“Cam had been careful on Carder.su. He registered as the user Kilobit”
Cameron Harrison
MEMBER_OF
Kilobit
The episode presents Cameron as the operator behind the Kilobit identity and as a participant in the associated carding operation.
Derived
Confidence 86%
· Cameron Harrison
EP 85
Details
“They know exactly who I was.”
“Cam had named his computer Kilobit and this was the same name he used on the Carder.su forums.”