Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says the show is created and written by him.
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“This show is created by me”
Episode
04 February 2020 Official episode · Official transcript
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The episode describes the identification and prosecution of Gal Vallerius, known as OxyMonster, through darknet-market activity and Bitcoin tracing, along with law-enforcement operations targeting opioid vendors and marketplaces.
Topics: Darknet-market anonymity and operational security, Tor and onion services, PGP public-key encryption, Bitcoin blockchain analysis and wallet tracing, Bitcoin tumblers and cryptocurrency cash-outs, Undercover law-enforcement operations, DDoS attacks against darknet marketplaces, Darknet-market administration and vendor infrastructure, Digital-device searches and forensic evidence
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Jack Rhysider AUTHORED Darknet Diaries
Jack says the show is created and written by him.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“This show is created by me”
Jack says Kyle Enos sold fentanyl on AlphaBay.
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“he was selling fentanyl on AlphaBay”
Jack says Kyle Enos sold fentanyl on Hansa.
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“selling fentanyl on AlphaBay, Hansa, and the Dream”
Kyle Enos USES Dream Market
Jack says Kyle Enos sold fentanyl on Dream Market.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“selling fentanyl on AlphaBay, Hansa, and the Dream”
Silk Road DEVELOPED_BY Ross Ulbricht
Jack identifies Ross Ulbricht as the founder of Silk Road.
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“Ross Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road”
AlphaBay DEVELOPED_BY Alexandre Cazès
Jack says Alexandre Cazes created AlphaBay.
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“Alexandre Cazes, he created another dark marketplace called AlphaBay”
Gal Vallerius SAME_AS OxyMonster
The DEA found a matching private PGP key and Jack says this proved Gal Vallerius was OxyMonster.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“This proved that Gal Vallerius was OxyMonster”
OxyMonster USES Dream Market
OxyMonster was an administrator, vendor, and active participant on Dream Market.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“OxyMonster is an admin to Dream Market”
OxyMonster USES TradeRoute
OxyMonster maintained an account and sold drugs on TradeRoute.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“check out OxyMonster’s account on TradeRoute”
OxyMonster USES Evolution
Jack says OxyMonster was a moderator on the Evolution market.
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“OxyMonster was a mod on the now-defunct Evolution dark market”
OxyMonster USES Bitcoin
OxyMonster used Bitcoin for a tip jar and later cashed out those Bitcoin proceeds.
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“OxyMonster cashed out on his tip jar earnings”
OxyMonster USES localbitcoins.com
The DEA observed OxyMonster sending Bitcoin to localbitcoins.com fifteen times to cash out.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“OxyMonster sent his Bitcoin to a website called localbitcoins.com. He did this fifteen times.”
OxyMonster USES PGP
A private PGP key labeled OxyMonster was found on Gal Vallerius’s laptop and matched the key on the OxyMonster account.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“they found a private PGP key labeled OxyMonster”
Gal Vallerius USES Bitcoin
Gal possessed Bitcoin and agreed to forfeit Bitcoin proceeds from his darknet activities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“He would also forfeit all of the Bitcoin proceeds he had amassed through his darknet activities”
Gal Vallerius USES Silk Road
Prosecutors found connections linking Gal to Silk Road under another username.
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“connections of him being on Silk Road, Silk Road 2, AlphaBay, Hansa”
Gal Vallerius USES Silk Road 2
Prosecutors found connections linking Gal to Silk Road 2 under another username.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“connections of him being on Silk Road, Silk Road 2, AlphaBay, Hansa”
Gal Vallerius USES AlphaBay
Prosecutors found connections linking Gal to AlphaBay.
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“connections of him being on Silk Road, Silk Road 2, AlphaBay, Hansa”
Gal Vallerius USES Hansa
Gal was described as a vendor on Hansa, although Jack notes that the username connection was not fully clear.
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“Gal was a vendor there, too. Now, the details are not clear here because it seems it was a different username”
Drug Enforcement Administration USES Chain Analysis
Jack says the DEA used Chain Analysis to trace Bitcoin transactions in criminal cases.
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“they’re being used by the DEA, FBI, IRS, Europol, to trace Bitcoin transactions”
Drug Enforcement Administration USES Elliptical
Jack says Elliptical was among the tools used by the DEA to trace Bitcoin transactions.
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“one is called Chain Analysis and the other is called Elliptical”
Dream Market RELATED_TO Silk Road
Dream Market was modeled to look and operate like Silk Road.
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“The Dream Market was stood up pretty quickly and it was modeled to look and act just like Silk Road”
J-CODE INVOLVES Drug Enforcement Administration
J-CODE brought together the DEA as part of a task force targeting online opioid trafficking.
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“By bringing together the DEA, our Safe Streets Task Forces, our drug-trafficking task forces, our healthcare fraud special agents and other assets, and the FBI”
J-CODE INVOLVES Federal Bureau of Investigation
J-CODE was described as the FBI’s flagship task force against dark marketplaces and opioid trafficking.
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“J-CODE stands for Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement and was going into full effect”
Operation Disarray INVOLVES Federal Bureau of Investigation
Operation Disarray coordinated FBI action against darknet vendors in the United States.
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“Operation Disarray’s goal was to coordinate takedown of multiple dark market vendors who were in the US”
Operation SaboTor INVOLVES Federal Bureau of Investigation
Operation SaboTor was a J-CODE mission involving the FBI and international law-enforcement agencies against darknet drug sellers.
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“the FBI’s J-CODE team ... were onto their next mission. This time they called it Operation SaboTor”
Dream Market shutdown INVOLVES Dream Market
The Dream Market shutdown incident involved a notice that the market would close and move to a partner platform.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“the market would be shutting down on April 30th but it would be moving to a partner platform”
Dream Market ASSOCIATED_WITH DDoS attack
Dream Market was reported to be under a DDoS attack by hackers demanding payment.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“Dream Market was under a DDoS attack by hackers demanding $400,000”
Empire ASSOCIATED_WITH DDoS attack
Empire was reported to be among the marketplaces receiving DDoS attacks.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“two other leading marketplaces, Empire and Nightmare, were also getting Ddossed”
Nightmare ASSOCIATED_WITH DDoS attack
Nightmare was reported to be among the marketplaces receiving DDoS attacks.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Jack Rhysider EP 58 Details
“two other leading marketplaces, Empire and Nightmare, were also getting Ddossed”
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