Darknet Diaries DEVELOPED_BY Jack Rhysider
Jack says the show is made entirely by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“This show is made entirely by me, Jack Rhysider”
Episode
15 August 2018 Official episode · Official transcript
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The episode features Mobman discussing Sub7, unauthorized access to AT&T systems, the resulting telephone-network outage, and the disputed attribution of Sub7’s creation.
Topics: Remote-access Trojans, Credential theft from clear-text configuration files, Social engineering and game-cheat lures, Malware binding to legitimate executables, Wardialing and dial-up PBX access, Firmware modification and network outages, Accessibility-feature abuse for command-prompt access, Webcam surveillance by malware, Historical attribution of Sub7
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Darknet Diaries DEVELOPED_BY Jack Rhysider
Jack says the show is made entirely by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“This show is made entirely by me, Jack Rhysider”
Mobman USES Ultima Online
Mobman played Ultima Online extensively and used it as the setting for his in-game exploits.
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“I started playing a game called Ultima Online”
clear-text credential storage AFFECTS Ultima Online
Ultima Online's saved-login feature stored usernames and passwords in a clear-text file.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“it actually saves your username and password in a clear text file called uo.cfg”
Mobman EXPLOITS clear-text credential storage
Mobman obtained players' uo.cfg files to log into their Ultima Online accounts.
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“if we get other people’s uo.config file, ‘cause there’s some idiots at school that play it, we could log in as them”
Mobman claims he created Sub7, and Jack presents him as its maker, but the episode later reports competing claims that another person created it.
Uncertain Confidence 72% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“Mobman called his virus Sub7”
“Mobman stands firm on his claim that he wrote Sub7 but Ill Will says it wasn’t him”
Mobman used Sub7 to steal Ultima Online credentials and in-game property.
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“Mobman only used Sub7 to steal Ultima Online logins for himself”
Sub7 sent infected users' IP addresses and online status to Mobman through ICQ.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“When they get infected with it, it’ll send you an ICQ message and it’ll tell you their IP address and that they’re online”
Sub7 AFFECTS Ultima Online
Sub7 was used to obtain and abuse Ultima Online account credentials.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“created to steal Ultima Online log ins”
Mobman USES social engineering
Mobman socially engineered players into installing Sub7 by offering it as a game cheat.
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“He was able to social engineer dozens of players to install the virus”
Sub7 USES malware binding to an executable
Sub7 could be melded with a normal executable so that the executable still appeared to work while infecting the user.
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“you click Meld and it’ll meld the malware with the executable”
Sub7 ASSOCIATED_WITH remote-access tool
Mobman describes Sub7 as a remote-access tool and Trojan horse virus.
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“It’s a remote-access tool. It was a Trojan horse virus”
Mobman USES wardialing
Mobman used wardialing to identify modem-connected systems in AT&T's network.
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“This is called wardialing”
Mobman gained access to AT&T systems and says he bricked a central switching PBX.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I get into a couple of them”
“bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES AT&T
The outage affected AT&T's network in California, Nevada, and the wider west coast area.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“we just have a big network outage over there”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES PBX
The outage involved a central switching PBX that Mobman says was bricked.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“one of these central switching PBXs which happened to run like, the whole west coast telephone systems”
AT&T west coast network outage INVOLVES firmware rewriting
Mobman says the commands rewrote the firmware and caused the PBX to become unusable.
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“Apparently it rewrote the firmware on it and bricked one of these central switching PBXs”
AT&T west coast network outage ATTRIBUTED_TO Mobman
Mobman admits that his commands caused the outage, although the account is his own recollection.
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“I’ll tell you why, if you fix my phone bill”
“I bragged to them; I sit there and I tell them what I did”
Magnifying Glass accessibility abuse USES cmd.exe
Mobman replaced magnify.exe with cmd.exe to obtain a command prompt at the login screen.
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“I deleted Magnify and renamed cmd.exe to magnify”
McAfee DEVELOPED_BY John McAfee
Jack says John McAfee started the McAfee antivirus software company.
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“That’s John McAfee who started the McAfee antivirus software”
Ill Will AUTHORED article by Ill Will
Jack identifies Ill Will as the author of the article disputing Mobman's account.
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“The article is written by a guy named Ill Will”
article by Ill Will MENTIONS Sub7
The article discusses who created Sub7 and disputes Mobman's claim of authorship.
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“this article is saying otherwise”
“Ill Will swears that this isn’t the guy who wrote it”
Rolling Stone MENTIONS Sub7
Jack says Rolling Stone featured Mobman and stated that he created Sub7.
Attributed Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 20 Details
“Mobman was also featured in Rolling Stone magazine which says he did create it”
Mobman attended DEF CON and says people there recognized him for Sub7; this is an association rather than proof of authorship.
Explicit Confidence 88% · Mobman EP 20 Details
“I’ll go to Defcon or whatnot and people come up to me; they’re like oh man, you’re Sub7”
Works mentioned in the transcript. Distinct from show-note sources.
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