Paint Parrot MEMBER_OF Royal Artillery
Paint Parrot said he was in the British Army's Royal Artillery.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“I was in a part of the British Army called the Royal Artillery”
Episode
08 December 2020 Official episode · Official transcript
social engineering
The episode describes corporate-intelligence contractors using open-source intelligence, surveillance, and social engineering to identify and cultivate corporate whistleblowers for potential SEC and DOJ cases.
Topics: Social engineering and psychological manipulation, Open-source intelligence collection, Pattern-of-life analysis, Pretexting and fabricated identities, Social-media intelligence, Doxxing, Covert surveillance and physical tracking, Disposable phones and SIM cards, Penetration testing, Red teaming
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Qualified statements from this episode, not graph facts.
Paint Parrot MEMBER_OF Royal Artillery
Paint Parrot said he was in the British Army's Royal Artillery.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“I was in a part of the British Army called the Royal Artillery”
Paint Parrot MEMBER_OF British Army
Paint Parrot said he served in the British Army.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“I was in a part of the British Army”
Royal Artillery PART_OF British Army
The Royal Artillery was described as a part of the British Army.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“a part of the British Army called the Royal Artillery”
UAV unit PART_OF Royal Artillery
The UAV unit was described as a unit within the Royal Artillery.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“We were a drone unit within the Royal Artillery”
The UAV unit gathered intelligence for operations against the Taliban.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“go out and do operations against, I don’t know, like the Taliban”
Paint Parrot USES social engineering
Paint Parrot described his work as involving social engineering to persuade or deceive people into revealing information or granting access.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“You learn a lot of social engineering ‘cause you’re constantly having to talk your way into places you shouldn’t be”
Paint Parrot USES Open-source intelligence
Paint Parrot used open-source intelligence techniques to research a target and the target's family, contacts, and routines.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“use your standard sort of open-source intelligence type techniques”
Paint Parrot USES Pattern of life
Paint Parrot built a pattern of life for the target to determine how to fit into the target's routine.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“We almost build out what we call a ‘pattern of life’ on the person”
Paint Parrot USES Pretexting
Paint Parrot created a false identity, backstory, LinkedIn profile, and business cards as a pretext for approaching the target.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“Paint Parrot needs to come up with a pretext, a backstory as to who he is”
Paint Parrot USES Burner phone
Paint Parrot used burner phones as part of his operational identities and later handed a burner phone to the recruited whistleblower.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“The next thing I notice, I met up with him after that to give him a burner phone”
Paint Parrot USES Pay-as-you-go SIM card
Paint Parrot used UK pay-as-you-go SIM cards in secondhand phones for different jobs and identities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“We’d get a load of – in the UK – pay-as-you-go SIM cards and secondhand phones”
Paint Parrot USES Facebook
Paint Parrot used Facebook to gather publicly available information about a target and the target's family.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“use Facebook so we can get pictures of his family first and last names, locations”
Paint Parrot USES Instagram
Paint Parrot used Instagram as a source of open-source intelligence about the target and the target's family.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“looking at Facebook, Instagram”
Paint Parrot USES MySpace
Paint Parrot used the target's old MySpace account as part of his intelligence gathering.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Paint Parrot EP 80 Details
“Found he’s still got an old MySpace”
Paint Parrot USES LinkedIn
Paint Parrot and his team used LinkedIn to identify employees of the target company who might have relevant knowledge.
Explicit Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“you can go on LinkedIn, search for a company, and see thousands of employees that work for that company”
Paint Parrot USES Surveillance
After leaving corporate intelligence, Paint Parrot was described as focusing on surveillance work.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“start his own company which does surveillance work”
Paint Parrot USES penetration testing
Paint Parrot was described as focusing on penetration testing after leaving the corporate intelligence work.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“he mostly focuses on penetration testing, social engineering, and red teaming”
Paint Parrot USES Red teaming
Paint Parrot was described as focusing on red teaming after leaving the corporate intelligence work.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“he mostly focuses on penetration testing, social engineering, and red teaming”
2008 financial crisis LEADS_TO Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Jack said the Dodd-Frank Act was passed a little over a year after the 2008 financial crisis.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“This was just a little over a year after the 2008 financial crisis”
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ASSOCIATED_WITH Securities and Exchange Commission
The Dodd-Frank Act was described as establishing or supporting corporate whistleblower bounty provisions administered through SEC enforcement cases.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 80 Details
“this new law said whenever a whistleblower comes forward to provide good information in a case that results in a fine of over a million dollars”
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