Episode

EP 32 — The Carder

19 February 2019 Official episode · Official transcript

cybercrime carding

The episode follows the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of Roman Seleznev, a major carding-market operator associated with nCux, Track2, Bulba, and 2pac.cc. It covers payment-card malware, exposed Remote Desktop services, carding markets, digital forensics, international law enforcement, and related prosecutions.

Topics: Carding markets and sale of stolen payment-card dumps, Point-of-sale malware and payment-card scraping, Remote Desktop exposure on port 3389, Credential brute forcing and password reuse, Internet-wide scanning, Liberty Reserve and illicit financial transfers, Digital forensics and forensic disk imaging, Volume Shadow Copy Service evidence recovery, Pen-trap traffic metadata collection, International cybercrime investigations and extradition, Payment Card Industry compliance and breach costs

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Entities (43)

Claims (26)

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 32 Details

“This show is made by me, skid rock, Jack Rhysider.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 40872–40922

Roman Seleznev USES CarderWorld.cc

The actor used CardingWorld.cc to advertise and sell stolen credit-card dumps under the alias nCux.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“nCux would come up on the forum and go crazy selling dumps.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 3907–3966

Roman Seleznev USES Carder.su

The actor used Carder.su under the alias Track2 as a card-dump vendor.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“a new vendor showed up there named Track2”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 6036–6077

Roman Seleznev USES Bulba.cc

The actor used Bulba.cc as an elite carder marketplace for stolen cards.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“you can then be invited to Bulba.cc, a more elite carder site”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 9993–10054

Bulba.cc ASSOCIATED_WITH Track2.name

The detective determined that Bulba.cc and Track2.name were probably owned by the same person and appeared nearly identical.

Uncertain Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“The detective determined the websites were probably owned by the same person”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 10057–10133

Roman Seleznev ASSOCIATED_WITH Track2.name

Track2.name was associated with Roman Seleznev through matching physical address, ICQ number, and account information; the episode presents this as connecting Track2 to Roman.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“nCux and Track2 and Bulba were all the same person”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 13341–13391

2pac.cc OPERATED_BY Roman Seleznev

The Secret Service connected Roman Seleznev to being the person behind 2pac.cc.

Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“they found information that connected Roman Seleznev to be the person behind the 2pac.cc website”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 24197–24293

Roman Seleznev USES Liberty Reserve

Roman used Liberty Reserve for financial transactions connected with his carding businesses.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“He found a lot of e-mails for transactions through Liberty Reserve”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 12870–12936

Roman Seleznev DISCOVERED_BY United States Secret Service

The Secret Service discovered that the nCux identity was Roman Seleznev.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“they discovered his name was Roman Seleznev”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 4806–4849

Roman Seleznev USES Kameo

The episode says Roman installed Kameo on exposed Windows computers to scrape payment-card data, although the episode also frames the attribution as presumptive in places.

Uncertain Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“he’d install malware on it to scrape the cards off it and then send it to his server”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 15590–15674

“presumably by Roman Seleznev”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 17410–17438

Roman Seleznev USES internet-wide scanning

Roman's server was used to mass-scan the internet for computers with Remote Desktop exposed.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“This server was being used to mass-scan the internet”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 14442–14494

Roman Seleznev USES Credential brute force

After finding exposed Remote Desktop systems, the attacker attempted logins by cycling through commonly used usernames and passwords.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“attempt to brute force login to it by cycling through thousands of commonly-used usernames and passwords”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 14866–14970

Roman Seleznev EXPLOITS Remote Desktop exposure

Roman exploited systems with Remote Desktop exposed to the internet, according to the episode's reconstruction of his activity.

Derived Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“Roman would hack into Windows computers that he would find exposed online”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 15437–15510

Schlotzsky’s Deli compromise COMPROMISES RBS Worldpay

No claim: the catalog's Schlotzsky's incident concerns Schlotzsky's Deli, not RBS Worldpay.

Uncertain Confidence 0% EP 32 Details

Schlotzsky’s Deli compromise INVOLVES Kameo

The Schlotzsky's Deli compromise involved Kameo malware running on the registers.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“He found they both had malware running on them called Kameo with a K.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 7778–7847

Broadway Grill compromise INVOLVES Kameo

The Broadway Grill compromise involved a slightly different version of Kameo malware.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“These computers had the same Kameo malware that the detective found on the Schlotzsky’s Deli computers.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 11743–11846

Schlotzsky’s Deli compromise COMPROMISES RBS Worldpay

This is not supported by the transcript; the incident compromised Schlotzsky's Deli rather than RBS Worldpay.

Uncertain Confidence 0% EP 32 Details

RBS Worldpay breach INVOLVES Roman Seleznev

Federal prosecutors claimed Roman, along with fourteen others, hacked RBS Worldpay; Roman pleaded guilty to the charge.

Attributed Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“Federal prosecutors there claimed Roman, along with 14 other people, hacked into RBS Worldpay”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 39447–39540

“Roman pleaded guilty to this, too.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 40178–40212

RBS Worldpay breach INVOLVES Payment-card dumping

The RBS Worldpay attackers stole thousands of credit cards and distributed the dumps to cashers.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“the hackers got in, stole thousands of credit cards, then gave it to fourteen different cashers around the world”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 39590–39702

RBS Worldpay breach LEADS_TO PCI

The broader card breaches led victim businesses to face payment-card-industry compliance obligations and audits.

Derived Confidence 86% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“in order to process credit cards you must be compliant with the payment card industry, or PCI”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 37664–37757

Carder.su OPERATED_BY Roman Seleznev

Roman pleaded guilty to being the owner of Carder.su, according to the episode.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“accused Roman of being the owner of Carder.su”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 39049–39094

“Sure enough, it was true. Roman pleaded guilty to these charges”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 39136–39200

Roman Seleznev TARGETS RBS Worldpay

The episode says Roman was accused of participating in the attack against RBS Worldpay.

Attributed Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“Roman was accused of stealing two million dollars himself.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 40054–40112

Kameo AFFECTS Windows 8

Kameo infected Windows computers, including the Windows systems used by the affected businesses; the transcript does not specifically say Kameo ran on Windows 8.

Derived Confidence 72% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“they’re just regular Windows computers running the cash register software”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 7702–7775

Roman Seleznev USES Tor Browser

Forensic analysis found that Roman's laptop was last used with a Tor browser.

Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“the last application he used was a Tor browser”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 30152–30198

Volume Shadow Copy Service AFFECTS Windows 8

The Windows 8 laptop had Volume Shadow Copy Service enabled and used it to retain snapshots of files.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 32 Details

“This computer was running Windows 8 and had the Volume Shadow Copy Service enabled.”

Jack Rhysider · offsets 30791–30874

Broadway Grill compromise COMPROMISES RBS Worldpay

No claim: Broadway Grill and RBS Worldpay are separate incidents in the transcript.

Uncertain Confidence 0% EP 32 Details

Transcript references

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Extraction provenance

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