Episode

EP 22 — Mini-Stories: Vol 1

15 September 2018 Official episode · Official transcript

penetration test social engineering incident response

The episode contains short stories about an accidental unauthorized penetration test, crypto-jacking on wind-turbine systems, and social-engineering assessments of a corporate headquarters.

Topics: Authorized and unauthorized penetration testing, Remote code execution and command injection, Phishing and command-and-control callbacks, Metasploit and Meterpreter, Network pivoting and excessive administrative privileges, Industrial control systems and SCADA environments, Crypto-jacking on wind-turbine computers, Incident response in operational technology environments, Social engineering and vishing, Open-source intelligence gathering, Physical access controls and RFID, Trust verification and anti-tailgating practices

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Entities (35)

Claims (21)

Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.

Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries

Jack says the show is made by him.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details

“this show is made by me, Jack Rhysider”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 38605–38643

Rob Fuller SAME_AS Mubix

Rob Fuller says he also goes by Mubix.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details

“a guy named Rob Fuller who also goes by Mubix”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 2397–2443

Mubix MEMBER_OF Uber

Mubix says he works at Uber as a senior security engineer.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“I work at Uber as a senior security engineer”

Mubix · offsets 2547–2591

Rob Fuller ASSOCIATED_WITH Silicon Valley

Rob Fuller says he is a senior technical advisor for the HBO show Silicon Valley.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“I’m a senior technical advisor for the HBO show Silicon Valley”

Mubix · offsets 2594–2656

Rob Fuller ASSOCIATED_WITH Metasploit Minute

Rob Fuller says he hosts the Hak5 show Metasploit Minute.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“the host of the Hak5 show Metasploit Minute”

Mubix · offsets 2668–2711

Mubix USES penetration testing

Mubix worked as a penetration tester and used penetration testing in assessments of companies.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details

“he was a penetration tester and his job was to hack into companies to test their security”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 2742–2831

Mubix USES Remote code execution

During the penetration test, Mubix's team found and used remote code execution to obtain a shell on the web server.

Explicit Confidence 94% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“One of our guys on the team finds a remote code execution under one of the web apps”

Mubix · offsets 4822–4905

Mubix EXPLOITS Command injection

Mubix says the team got into the command injection after obtaining access.

Explicit Confidence 95% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“We get into the command injection”

Mubix · offsets 5832–5865

Mubix USES Meterpreter

Mubix says the team deployed a Meterpreter session during the test.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“we dump a Meterpreter session on there”

Mubix · offsets 6138–6176

Mubix USES Command and control

Mubix says the team established callbacks to command and control infrastructure.

Explicit Confidence 95% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“get the call backs going to command and control stuff”

Mubix · offsets 6083–6136

Mubix USES Pivoting

Mubix says the team pivoted into the target network.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Mubix EP 22 Details

“Then we pivot into the network”

Mubix · offsets 6554–6584

Dragos DEVELOPED_BY Robert M. Lee

Robert M. Lee identifies himself as the CEO and founder of Dragos.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Robert M. Lee EP 22 Details

“I am the CEO and founder of Dragos”

Robert M. Lee · offsets 14990–15024

Dragos ASSOCIATED_WITH Industrial control systems

Dragos is described as a company founded to defend industrial control systems against industrial attacks.

Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 22 Details

“He then took an interest in industrial control systems and started his own company called Dragos”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 15239–15335

Robert M. Lee USES incident response

Robert was called to conduct incident response for a client operating wind turbines.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Robert M. Lee EP 22 Details

“They’re reaching out and calling us to go do an incident response with them”

Robert M. Lee · offsets 15651–15726

Crypto-jacking ASSOCIATED_WITH Bitcoin

Robert says the crypto-jacking activity was probably mining Bitcoin, while qualifying that he only remembered this tentatively.

Uncertain Confidence 88% · Robert M. Lee EP 22 Details

“I think this one was actually Bitcoin if I remember correctly”

Robert M. Lee · offsets 18847–18908

Snow ASSOCIATED_WITH Defcon

Snow says Defcon was the event that led her into her cybersecurity career and that she competed there repeatedly.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Snow EP 22 Details

“everything that brought me to do my career is because of Defcon”

Snow · offsets 24248–24311

Snow ASSOCIATED_WITH Black Badge

Snow says she won Defcon 22 and won the Black Badge.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details

“I won Defcon 22. I won the Black Badge.”

Snow · offsets 27040–27080

Snow USES social engineering

Snow professionally performs social-engineering assessments for companies.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Snow EP 22 Details

“I started my own consultancy and I’ve worked for a handful of companies doing this work professionally”

Snow · offsets 24840–24954

Snow USES phishing

Snow identifies phishing as one of the main types of security assessment she performs.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details

“The main ones that I do are physical security, phishing”

Snow · offsets 28024–28079

Snow USES Vishing

Snow identifies vishing, or voice phishing, as one of her assessment methods.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details

“vishing, with a v, voice phishing”

Snow · offsets 28122–28155

Snow USES Open-source intelligence

Snow says she performs open-source intelligence gathering before assessments.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Snow EP 22 Details

“I do a lot of open source intelligence-gathering”

Snow · offsets 28166–28214

Transcript references

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Extraction provenance

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