YTCracker’s father MEMBER_OF Hughes Aircraft
YTCracker says his father worked for Hughes Aircraft on Peacekeeper missiles.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“He worked for Hughes Aircraft and he was working on peacekeeper missiles”
Episode
10 November 2020 Official episode · Official transcript
cybercrime black hat hacktivism penetration test
The episode profiles cybersecurity-focused nerdcore musicians and discusses their early hacking activities, penetration testing, red teaming, malware analysis, cloud security, and security-related music.
Topics: WinNuke and attacks against Windows systems through port 139, IRC bots and bulletin board systems, AOL account-directory scraping and client exploitation, ColdFusion arbitrary file upload exposure, Website defacement, Spam-based referral monetisation, CAN-SPAM regulation, LulzSec and Operation AntiSec, Internal red teaming of cloud-service development teams, Web shells and .NET payloads, Application-security white-box and black-box testing, Domain-admin compromise and network pivoting, Reverse engineering of copy-protection systems, Malware sandboxing and indicator extraction, Cryptocurrency-mining malware, Command-and-control infrastructure and coordinated takedowns, SSH public-key access and SFTP/SCP file transfer
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Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.
YTCracker’s father MEMBER_OF Hughes Aircraft
YTCracker says his father worked for Hughes Aircraft on Peacekeeper missiles.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“He worked for Hughes Aircraft and he was working on peacekeeper missiles”
YTCracker’s father MEMBER_OF Martin Marietta
YTCracker says his father worked with Martin Marietta after moving back to Colorado.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“he was working with Martin Marietta, which eventually became Lockheed Martin”
Martin Marietta ASSOCIATED_WITH Lockheed Martin
The episode says Martin Marietta eventually became Lockheed Martin.
Explicit Confidence 94% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“Martin Marietta, which eventually became Lockheed Martin”
YTCracker USES bulletin board system
YTCracker says his first real hack involved accessing a public library bulletin board system.
Explicit Confidence 97% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“the public library had a bulletin board system”
YTCracker USES Eggdrop bot
YTCracker says he dropped into a shell on a bulletin board system and turned it into an Eggdrop bot.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“I found out how to drop into a shell. I turned it into an Eggdrop bot.”
Jack describes the Eggdrop installation as an IRC bot.
Derived Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“He installed an IRC bot on it”
YTCracker says he used WinNuke to knock people offline or crash Windows computers.
Explicit Confidence 98% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“I remember WinNuke had come out”
YTCracker explains that WinNuke sent a packet to port 139.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“you send out a band packet to port 139”
YTCracker describes using AOL systems and chatrooms to identify and intimidate users.
Explicit Confidence 96% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“We were working on defacing keywords. We had access to the CRIS.”
YTCracker USES Consumer Resource Information Service
YTCracker says he and others had access to AOL's Consumer Resource Information Service to look up user information.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“We had access to the CRIS. It was the Consumer Resource Information Service”
YTCracker EXPLOITS ColdFusion default-upload vulnerability
YTCracker says he used the ColdFusion default-upload bug to upload files to websites.
Explicit Confidence 98% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“There was a cold fusion bug when it was in default upload”
YTCracker USES Website defacement
YTCracker describes replacing or modifying website pages as a form of web page defacement.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“I kind of really liked web page defacement”
YTCracker says he gathered millions of email addresses and sent spam for referral payments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“I could send them all an e-mail telling them to go sign up at this website and I’d get paid”
The episode says the website-defacement pattern included servers maintained by NASA.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Host EP 78 Details
“The pattern was repeated on over forty websites including servers maintained by NASA.”
Operation AntiSec OPERATED_BY LulzSec
Jack states that Operation AntiSec was a hacking campaign conducted by LulzSec.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“operation AntiSec was a hacking campaign conducted by a group of anonymous hackers called LulzSec”
Operation AntiSec INVOLVES Sony
Jack says LulzSec's Operation AntiSec hacked Sony's websites.
Explicit Confidence 97% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“They hacked into a ton of websites including Sony”
Operation AntiSec INVOLVES United States Senate
Jack says LulzSec's Operation AntiSec hacked the US Senate's websites.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“including Sony, PVS, the US Senate”
YTCracker ASSOCIATED_WITH Project Chanology
YTCracker says he was involved in Project Chanology and related activity.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“I was involved in Project Chanology and some of the other stuff”
YTCracker MEMBER_OF Amazon digital security
YTCracker says he is part of Amazon digital security.
Explicit Confidence 99% · YTCracker EP 78 Details
“I’m part of Amazon digital security”
Ohm-I says he encountered ASP during a web application penetration test and investigated what he could do with it.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“they had ASP and I was like oh, what can I do with this?”
Ohm-I says he wrote a web shell to obtain command-line access and take over a machine.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“writing .NET payloads and all these other cool things”
Ohm-I USES .NET payloads
Ohm-I describes using .NET payloads while developing a web shell for a penetration test.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“writing .NET payloads”
Ohm-I says he uses Python extensively in information-security work and automation.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“no matter what your field is in InfoSec, you can probably use Python for something”
Ohm-I says he works on an internal red team performing assessments against Azure product teams.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“Our job is to perform red team assessments against teams working on Azure products and services.”
Int80 identifies himself as the rapper in Dual Core.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“I’m the rapper in Dual Core”
Int80 says c64 is the other half of Dual Core and produces its beats.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“the other half is c64. I write and record all the rap songs and c64 makes all the beats.”
Int80 says he used Net Send to send a false virus message to Windows computers at school.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“using Net Send, I sent a message to all the Windows computers saying there was a virus”
Int80 USES punt strings
Int80 says he traded malformed HTML, which he called punt strings, for stolen accounts.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“I used to trade these punt strings, this malformed HTML, for stolen accounts”
Int80 USES Visual Basic
Int80 says his desire to weaponize punt strings drove him to learn Visual Basic.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“That drove me to learning Visual Basic and the Windows API”
Int80 USES Windows API
Int80 says he learned the Windows API to write programs that could kick people offline.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“learning Visual Basic and the Windows API so that I could write my own punters”
Int80 USES white-box assessment
Int80 says his application-security consulting engagements included white-box assessments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“We would do white box or black box assessments”
Int80 USES black-box assessment
Int80 says his application-security consulting engagements included black-box assessments.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“We would do white box or black box assessments”
Int80 USES Reverse engineering
Int80 says he worked in reverse engineering, including cracking and analyzing copy protection.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“I then moved into a position doing reverse-engineering”
Int80 USES malware analysis
Int80 describes sandboxing malware, picking it apart, and determining what it was doing.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“sandbox it, pick it apart programatically, figure out what it was doing”
Litecoin-mining malware DISCOVERED_BY Int80
Int80 says he discovered Litecoin-mining malware on a social-media platform.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 78 Details
“he discovered some malware on the platform which would mine Litecoin”
Litecoin-mining malware USES Litecoin
The malware mined Litecoin and used a Litecoin mining pool.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“I reached out to the Litecoin mining pool”
Litecoin-mining malware USES Dropbox
Int80 says the malware staged files on Dropbox.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“the malware had stages up on Dropbox”
Litecoin-mining malware USES Command and control
Int80 says the malware's command and control was hosted on a VPS.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“the C2 was at some hosting company”
Litecoin-mining malware USES VPS
Int80 says the malware's C2 was on a VPS in a hosting provider's environment.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“this malware has got its C2 on a VPS in your hosting setup”
coordinated malware takedown INVOLVES Litecoin-mining malware
The coordinated takedown stopped the Litecoin-mining malware from operating on the internet.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“We did this coordinated takedown and that Friday at 9:00 AM, the malware ceased to exist on the internet.”
Int80 MEMBER_OF Salesforce
Int80 says he worked as a red-team operator at Salesforce.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“I worked on the red team at Salesforce”
Int80 says the Salesforce red team's job was to make controlled bad things happen and test critical business systems.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“After leaving the social media platform, I took a job as a red team operator.”
Dual Core ASSOCIATED_WITH Defcon
The episode says Dual Core played at Defcon and was the first live hip-hop act there.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Int80 EP 78 Details
“We ended up playing at Defcon that year”
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