Hackers for Hire: Inside a Global Revenge Phishing Operation🎙Darknet Diaries Ep. 79: Dark Basin

What do you do when you find yourself the target of a massive hacking campaign, and you're getting thousands of phishing emails and someone keeps following you in your car? You might turn to Citizen Lab who has the ability to research who is behind this and help bring the hackers to justice.
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[@dingleberry352]

Perfect timing for sleep before work, love from Germany 🇩🇪

[@SimEon-jt3sr]

You sleep before work? Why not sleep after work? Makes way more sense.

[@dingleberry352]

@@SimEon-jt3sr i work at the morning, i cannot sleep after work i have uni, why would it make sense to sleep in my uni classes? do you expect me to stay awake all night, go to work in the morning, go to uni class, still not sleep before work and just repeat? The time my comment was posted was nighttime, do you not sleep at nighttime? You sleep during the day?

[@SimEon-jt3sr]

@@dingleberry352 omg dude I probably sleep a lot less than you do. Ha ha it is a dumb joke. U said sleep before work. I said sleep after. But they're really the same thing. Kind of like the day comes before night which comes before day?? Sorry!!! Just kidding around.

[@SimEon-jt3sr]

@@dingleberry352 YES OBVIOUS HOW CAN YOU MISS THIS POINT MY FRIEND

[@dingleberry352]

@@SimEon-jt3sr yes and I sleep before i go to work where is part for the joke? I don’t understand still

[@anupkarki8237]

Came to Niagra Falls, now listening to him at this time of the night.

[@DownloadeousMaximus]

Your intro described the base issues of this planet. If you fight fire with fire you become what you’re fighting against. 😖

[@rebokfleetfoot]

this is one of the best channels i've ever found, please continue

[@rebokfleetfoot]

well, i must admit, i didn't find it, my son did

[@angtang01]

@@rebokfleetfoot but you made your son 🤣🤣

[@0therun1t21]

This adds a whole new dimension to how I think about companies like this, thanks!

[@jacksonbailey6847]

I mean, hackers who break the law aren't always evil. They could be chaotic good or even neutral good. Just like how you can have lawful evil hackers.

[@Louis_H_]

Stop thinking about the world like it's like d&d character creation. People don't act like that, people change, it's what we do, who says a person that is nice to other people and is lawful isn't actually a menace behind closed doors or vice versa. People sour, or they mellow out through time and that's seen in their actions, not imaginary rpg personality maps lol I've been lawful and illegal, evil and good so have you probably, is it that easy for you to put yourself in a quadrant? 🤔

[@w花b]

My man knows the whole alignment grid 💀

[@lastofthebest5102]

Stop with the making sense, its going to ruin the narrative he is trying to push that anything that isnt legal is somehow "evil". How dare you question the corporation called the United States and its corporate for-profit scheme called the Legal System. Its not like they just put in place the biggest honey pot the world has seen by legalizing ar braces then making them illegal thus creating 40 million + new -customers- criminals overnight. What ever you do dont think for yourself either, it would go against the narrative that is being pushed by this pretend-a-fringe checkmarked channel.

[@cody1541]

Facts

[@Mubvekhar]

>lawful evil *cough* NSA

[@ride1123]

I launched a company in October, we have almost no money, the company is literally just me, but over the past month I've been relentlessly attacked by phishing scams and this one odd overpayment scam, and i've been getting a crazy number of calls and hangups for "wrong numbers." i just dont get how I can be worth all this time. Its blowing my mind right now. I want to kick these people in the fcking groin.

[@jumpinjohnnyruss]

It's sounds like they're getting practice. You might not be worth the time yourself. There's more plausible deniability in a case like yours where they can rely on police (or anyone else you tell) to resist the suggestion that you're being targeted because your financial situation makes it seem like you wouldn't be worth the time and effort. Someone was getting their feet wet. Or you found yourself on the bad side of someone who has an organization like that at their fingertips and it's what they're using to frustrate you.

[@HenkGootjes66]

Great suggestion, you're probably right

[@abitofyourbrain]

Run their email as if its a url address-view source on what you get-use a “common hash” macro to find the similarities-keep in mind most people Dont Understand how hashed metadata works- this will allow you to see any similar hashing and if you look up how to break down hashkeys you may be able to see because of this how many people are actually attacking you and from there especially if you read the instructions you should be able to see whether they are actually the company or person that they are claiming to be or if they are hiding behind another party which is common for them-I have been researching this and collecting data for the last three years and have unfortunately had interactions with this group over the last 10 years since 2012-it is complex and more often than not going to lead people to the wrong parties in regards to who is responsible-airport I am putting together as extensive and has required huge amount of patience on my part and dealing with these people in order to collect this data-there is very little that you were able to do as their ability goes beyond simply remote and they will put in the effort to set up hard to spot mesh structures to capture what they want from your physical location as well Jack is right this goes right up the chain of government and it is indeed in my opinion the largest and most complicated group of unethical hacking parties I have ever seen Sorry for any typos I’m using voice to text as I have thrown all care to the wind in exchange for vast amount of data lol

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Try signing up for DeleteMe. I am no one but i've had a similar problem for years. I paid for 3 years of DeleteMe and while I still get normal telemarketing calls, the phishing attempts have calmed. Hope you have your LLC totally separate from your personal details when possible. You gotta do some preventive measures.

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

@@abitofyourbrainbuddy...what if they don't know what hashing is? you need to speak ordinary English, not programmer.

[@UrbanGreenZ4]

Hate to admit it, but I miss you when you're gone... Love the eps and cannot wait for more.

[@JackTYM]

I'm about to change your life. The episodes released on youtube are released from about 3 years ago. Episodes up to 134 are available in actual podcast form!

[@Optable]

Stellar work my friend. Did want to add that from what I read online, that conference wasn't a chance meeting of "i just happened to run in to that guy at some random place in the world" and more of a "we didn't have this guy on our list yet, but based on what we gathered so far, this conference made sense to attend for more intel and achieving sub-goals for our investigation."

[@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit]

Fun Fact: "Ocean Avenue" is where the original Amityville Horror took place. #112 to be exact.

[@JoshJustTalks]

Has anyone realised that ep 78 is not on youtube?👀 or if it is, it doesn’t use the same naming convention.. maybe I’m tripping. I’ve been binge watching this show for the last 2 weeks. And I’m probably gonna finish all the episodes in no time.

[@f4st4w4rd]

Sometimes the public is deceived until the law is "evil"; those laws are "unwittingly" enforced by those who support "evil" with integrity. So sometimes breaking the law and exposing lies, using secrecy and deception, can be "good" things to do.

[@officialghetty]

Listening from the table at the wsop !!! Thank you for the content

[@JAY.ARE47]

My absolute favorite podcast and the Darknet store has some incredible shrits stickers and more. I've ordered several things the shirts are very comfortable and good quality. Thanks Jack!

[@shockwave5789]

Perfect timing. Just when I was repeating your other episodes. Thanks you Jack! Good stuff!

[@jamalevans5240]

Thank you Jack

[@colonelgraff9198]

The Danknet Diaries

[@timmyh13]

Jack, love the podcasts… Please try and use subtitles as it’s difficult to keep up sometimes!!!

[@JB-dz7sb]

Especially the Audio of the guests.... who seem to be always speaking over the phone (phone interviews)? They can be hard to hear. Otherwise, well done Jack 👍

[@lastofthebest5102]

Yep its very hard to wade through all the virtue signalling and ignorance spewed here.

[@JB-dz7sb]

@@lastofthebest5102 what do you mean exactly?

[@janet.snakehole]

also good when English Is not your first language and you are learning

[@blubaylon]

​@@lastofthebest5102You're one of those people that finds a problem with literally everything 😂 Do you have nightmares about a big scary monster called 'wokeness'? 😂

[@drakehasbula5557]

Lets gooo Jackkk👌✌

[@SexyThyme]

Good Morning Earth

[@ijme_]

oh my god i’ve been waiting for a new episode!

[@fredsmith2277]

these are well made podcasts !!!

[@johnwagenhals881]

Good job always explaining… filling in the gaps of understanding.. there should be no such thing as good hackers … but if you live by the sword , so shall you be brought down by one ..

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

So white hats shouldn't exist? Get outta here

[@alexanderdalipagic5674]

Love the podcast Jack!

[@douro20]

Matthew Earl isn't just the managing partner, he owns the place!

[@BigDogEnergy-69420]

00:23 ??? Since when was something inherently good simply because it's legal? Loads of evil shit is legal!

[@jasonwheat74]

Really Dig The-Knowledge Here Jack & thoroughly am with-fascination for this Subject-Matter. As an "Early-Gen-EX-UR" with very small amounts of : TECH/COMPUTER/CODE/INTERNET/TYPE : experience, I Am doing my best to grasp this Field. Since my : VESSEL : is Aging from decades of : WORK : & navigation of these cyber-sees is the : FUTURE : I thought best to : Thank-You : . Great-Style my Man! Many-Blessings For You.

[@Hypotemused]

This is like the Shadowerk episode of Law and Order

[@fellzer]

Wow. Amawing. That's incwedible. Simpwy amawing!

[@Citruss_XIII]

The law doesn’t dictate what’s good. Jim Crow laws anyone?

[@shinjitsu4476]

This surprisingly made me feel better. I just lost a lot of money to phishing.

[@vwestTube]

A group of hackers are spaying on me and tracking all my activity for years, and I don’t even know what I did in my life to be tracked for. It’s so stupid from their side to spend so much money on tracking me, simple because I’m nobody. I know it’s sounds crazy right? 😅

[@user-pz1hp3xb2i]

Wow I am in the same boat. It’s insane. I don’t know anyone else that’s been through this… I’ve learned bits of coding, and have tons of info. In various places and devices. All over, just in case… do the tease and make fun of you subtly?

[@tonyzone8999]

That is how I was thinking for while. But you have to know that obviously for them to go to those lengths to full survey someone 24/7. Especially by aircraft. You’re not a no body. To them you’re considered a high value target.

[@__-bz7wh]

One of favorite non-comedy podcasts. Excellent stories - thanks so much!

[@therealsmokinpotato]

Just because im insecure doesn't mean im in security

[@nkachur]

Jack, you do great work!

[@angelmessenger8240]

Always fascinating. Thank you.

[@AntWrocksNY]

That couldn’t be sold with a VPN?

[@MrMcyeet]

I appreciate you and love the podcast; Excited for this one :) Keep up the work, bro

[@DinoSpidersTV]

And added to what I'll listen to tomorrow's drive

[@tanker7757]

Thank you so much this is amazing content

[@user-gu8sc9xi8s]

wait wait wait... which one we talking about having the morals and ethics and upholds beliefs???? i just didnt want to get lost on page 1 thinking you said it was the police... cause i was gonna be like... whew imma fail this class!

[@htiguy1]

Interesting episode!

[@user-bs2nt6uf5x]

How do I hire a hacker to get and send someone dirty Webb site to law enforcement without anyone knowing who did it

[@DamjanDimitrioski]

Question of morality: Let suppose you're in a role of an elite system pwning master, but you got honor code or whatever. Will you as such person penetrate a system if you are gonna die in few days, where the target company has the cure but don't want to share it with you just so you can suffer, what will you do? Are you then evil or good if you take on the target? Even better non tech analogy, someone in front of you with guns is making fun of you waving with the cure in front of your face, mocking you, will you jump and take the bottle to survive or you will accept death?

[@nycgweed]

I was hacked after i joined a lawsuit against a large media company I wonder how i can look into this myself

[@user-pf5fo1xs1q]

They are truly evil

[@Gmangarebear]

Im in this situation. And they are threatening my life . They brandished a gun and said you want bang bang .

[@Gmangarebear]

Please help me

[@davematthewes7446]

Jim Browning, Kit Boga, Perogi, and IRLRosie have channels dealing with Indian scammers, quite interesting when they reverse the connection and delete the hacker's files/computers

[@danbrit9848]

Hack groups are often named by those hunting them..why give cool names ...bring the meme war to the names...next big attack name that has my vote floppy pickles

[@russell7054]

Motivations are not financial?? The motivations of the hirers (Exxon, Wirecard et al) are purely financial - and the hackers offer a service which no doubt get paid handsomely for......its less overtly criminal as a ramsomware hack but aims aren't much different for all parties.

[@laraoneal7284]

Russia is always scapegoated everywhere. How bout China. That’s more realistic.

[@scavengerkryovsnetworks4716]

Can we get a link for these guys? I def could use some hel0

[@SimSpark1]

It's disgusting to spent time to hack and lure what other have going for them. Sick to want to be bad. Watched too much movies and gamed too many hours for years to become like that . Out of touch of being a real human . I noticed so many psychotic narc scammers lately it's really not ok anymore..

[@TermsOfServiceWTF]

Jack is still the goat 🐐

[@notchildish]

LETS GOOOOOO

[@maximillianalexander7052]

Welcome back

[@TheSubpremeState]

Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so ~ shakespeare

[@user-op8oq3pw1h]

Ya. Well this is kinda what im dealing with

[@larianshawnmalgas98]

How can I hire you

[@abrahamrockers6265]

What a fantastic show Jack

[@Kakerate2]

the intro reminds me of the asymmetric power between normal people and the people that do bad, buy also pay off lady justice to ensure they never pay for what they did.

[@someguyfromtheinternet5102]

Lady justice? Payday 2?

[@Truth_Unleashed]

Reminds me of how we need a new global constitution that detects corruption, conspiracies and accounts for narcicists and psychopaths. Without fixing the game, we keep playing their rigged game. Once you make 10 mill you stop paying tax, when you make a billion you make the laws...

[@mx338]

Why would you even try to fight for a company, they only want to exploit for your labour as cheap as possible.

[@BestIsntEasy]

👋 Hello

[@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit]

People who think something is "right" just because it's a law need their tiny heads examimed AND throw in a good dose of actual, objective thinking.

[@lillyCfields]

It's a pet peeve of mine when ppl say threat to democracy. We have a Constitutional Federal Republic. We participate in federal elections where we have electoral votes. At a local level we democratically vote for our candidates. Wish people were more accurate about what the US really is. I notice that the main stream media does say "such and such is a threat to DeMoCrACY" a lot. If they are not accurate with that then what else are they not accurate in?

[@Lindsayx3]

❤ your vids 😍

[@AConcernedCitizen420]

1:40 in, 👍👍

[@sirgravzy5853]

This is such a great story, well done!

[@seekthetruthcheckthefacts4532]

Only the simpleton seeks easy judgment

[@abitofyourbrain]

I mean mercenaries are always going to be out there especially when developer gigs are so underappreciated and underpaid I still think it’s quite unusual that to date there’s been no mention of some of the more specific detailing in regards to any of this I admire a lot of your ethics in regards to so much of this technology and your angle when interviewing people I certainly can’t claim that I’ve been an angel over the years I will say that there are those that how do you said do work within an ethical framework and then there are those that seem to be a bit carried away like these people I mentioned in a comment as a response further down how long I’ve been embroiled in the constructive research of these people and to be fair lines to get gray After the last three years I have trouble still believing that without a solid understanding of the whole picture any of these groups are knowledgeable or capable of doing anything about these people I mean I have 10 years of understanding and three years of data and even with that I find myself overwhelmed and unsure where to begin and comprising a cohesive report Especially because so much of this not only stems from here in our own country but is being carefully hidden behind other parties that are often put into jail and do not belong there and because of all the data seeming to belong to them are in capable of fighting back Also to be fair the dark web does have a lot of very complicated constructs people and circumstances where it can sometimes become difficult for authorities or people in a position of legal authority to act in a way that is constructively useful or in a way that has any understanding of that gray area where in so many people hiding on there are truly doing no harm at most are perhaps technological freedom fighters while others are hiding behind the mask of red hats or freedom and instead are simply robbing humanity blind with no concern for any guidelines in regards to the concepts upon which many of the people on the dark web believe in an act upon. It’s like pirates having rules like bedtime at 8 PM which which oddly enough was actually a rule but they also stopped people and daughter gold as long as they worked for the east India company they didn’t tend to rob actual fishermen or people who were doing their best to just simply get by and they also stopped doing that at 8 PM so there was a fair bit of evening time where upon you could pretty much guarantee you were not going to get attacked by pirates allowed everyone to get a good nights rest before being attacked by pirates the next day it was incredibly fair I can only assume the Pirates that did not believe in these mechanisms were treated as history describes-and it’s not describe kindly Large parts of me somewhat hopes that this premise is still somewhere out there being fully realized But I may be a bit jaded by the circumstances to be fair

[@imnategray]

Short sellers are not good people. Economic vultures.

[@icecoldfroste]

😃

[@infosec_mike]

wirecard deffo misrepresented themselves lol

[@user-bs2nt6uf5x]

I want a hacker to help embrass a child abuser

[@fidelio9301]

There is no such thing as good or evil. You are so blue pill man.

[@omkar_shingade_0019]

Secret way to become millionaire🎉

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Early. :3

[@Ironclad17]

Sanction India until they address this nonsense.

[@isaalghazi9131]

The only reason a "LAW" exists is to give someone in authority a way to punish people for normal behaviours...

[@thymos6575]

lol I thought my country is only involved in high traffic scamming and now hacking for some propaganda too lmao😭😂

[@agent-8699]

Background drums/music sucks and is very distracting.

[@7_of_9]

LifeLock 😂

[@lukenakahara7272]

Fabulous Data 💾Dude…