Default says he eventually took over AnonSec.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“I eventually ended up taking over the group”
Person
person:default
Pseudonymous interview subject who describes participating in hacking groups, intrusions, doxxing, and hacktivist operations.
Pseudonymous interview subject who describes participating in hacking groups, intrusions, doxxing, and hacktivist operations.
“let’s just call him Default”
“I went to federal prison for five years”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | AnonSec | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | AnonSec | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | AnonGhost | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Team Poison | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | USES | Denial-of-service flooding | Derived | 139 |
| outgoing | USES | botnet | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | USES | Tor | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | USES | Facebook four-digit PIN reset exploit | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Crackas With Attitude | Derived | 139 |
| outgoing | USES | Bandicam | Derived | 139 |
| outgoing | USES | Bitcoin | Explicit | 139 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | NSA | Uncertain | 139 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Five Eyes | Uncertain | 139 |
Default says he eventually took over AnonSec.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“I eventually ended up taking over the group”
Default says he joined AnonGhost before leaving because some leaders became radicalized.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“I joined into a group called AnonGhost”
Default says he joined AnonSec after leaving AnonGhost.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Default EP 139 Details
“Then I joined a group called AnonSec”
Default ASSOCIATED_WITH Team Poison
Default says he learned from Team Poison while becoming associated with other hacking groups.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Default EP 139 Details
“I started learning from Team Poison”
Default USES Denial-of-service flooding
Default identifies the Detroit attack as the beginning of his politically motivated activity, while the episode describes his participation in the flooding attack.
Derived Confidence 85% · Default EP 139 Details
“that was our first segue into politically-motivated stuff”
Default says he connected through his botnet when conducting activity online.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“I’m connecting through Tor nodes and my botnet”
Default says he connected through Tor nodes as part of his operational security.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“I’m connecting through Tor nodes”
Default USES Facebook four-digit PIN reset exploit
Default says he and the group used the Facebook four-digit PIN reset flaw to access accounts.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Default EP 139 Details
“I didn’t care if it was Facebook or Twitter, which we had a zero-day on”
Default MEMBER_OF Crackas With Attitude
Default joined Crackas With Attitude’s hacktivist activity and worked with Cracka against government targets.
Derived Confidence 91% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“he starts hanging out with these folks from CWA and joins in on their hacktivism”
Default recorded videos of his own criminal activity using Bandicam, according to the episode’s account of evidence seized from his computer.
Derived Confidence 86% · Jack Rhysider EP 139 Details
“Screenshots that you had taken, Bandicam videos”
Default says he mined and bought Bitcoin beginning in 2011 and held a substantial amount of it.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Default EP 139 Details
“Literally mining and buying from — since 2011”
Default believes the NSA may have been involved in hacking his computer and his eventual capture; he presents this as a theory rather than a confirmed fact.
Uncertain Confidence 88% · Default EP 139 Details
“I’m pretty sure that’s how I got caught, is that the NSA got involved”
Default ASSOCIATED_WITH Five Eyes
Default says the NSA and Five Eyes were becoming more aggressive with spying and hacking, presenting this as his view.
Uncertain Confidence 86% · Default EP 139 Details
“the NSA and the Five Eyes and all these other people that are occluding together are not being complacent. They’re actually getting more aggressive with the spying and the hacking”