The Apex Legends Hacker: Destroyer2009

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John Hammond

John Hammond

2 ай бұрын

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@Alberto-ww7vb
@Alberto-ww7vb 2 ай бұрын
Actually incredible cover of the overall story. I love your final thought "We do it for the love of the hunt, not for the thrill of the kill". I think it is rather easy to sometimes fall in these bad places because we are so deep in the "hunt" that we may think that the reward is the only thing that there is left. But there will always be a bigger and more amazing hunt.
@sathro
@sathro 2 ай бұрын
John went dad mode for a second there. Kinda scary ngl
@apIthletIcc
@apIthletIcc Ай бұрын
Fr 😂 I thought he was talking to me for a second there.
@user-qq9fu2nj1p
@user-qq9fu2nj1p 2 ай бұрын
in russian timoxa can be read as timoha, short for timofej(Тимофей)
@HuntingKingYT
@HuntingKingYT 2 ай бұрын
13:56
@ctf59
@ctf59 Ай бұрын
))
@sathvik-R
@sathvik-R 2 ай бұрын
We want a collab between John and Jack Rhysider ❤️
@IT10T
@IT10T 2 ай бұрын
What would they even do? Jack is a storyteller
@Antimated
@Antimated 2 ай бұрын
@@IT10T Yeah but he also was a security guy iirc
@xHyperElectric
@xHyperElectric 2 ай бұрын
John needs to go on Darknet Diaries
@lxudgvming
@lxudgvming 2 ай бұрын
​@@IT10T I'm sure John has plenty of stories to tell lol
@ThePastaSlayer
@ThePastaSlayer 2 ай бұрын
That would be sick
@slavic_fox98
@slavic_fox98 2 ай бұрын
This is proof not to mess with cyber security professionals. You literally found out everything!
@malborboss
@malborboss 2 ай бұрын
Why the guy would care anyway? He's in Russia
@cleava959
@cleava959 2 ай бұрын
If you have good opsec even cybersecurity professionals won’t be able to find anything
@Talonzor
@Talonzor 2 ай бұрын
​@@cleava959its hard to have perfect opsec, very few have that as history shows
@rakis69
@rakis69 2 ай бұрын
@@malborboss 1 singular Hellfire R9X would be a small price to pay so he will never interrupt another tournament again?
@lxudgvming
@lxudgvming 2 ай бұрын
​@@rakis69lmfao bruhs ready to go to war over apex legends
@michaellarusch4317
@michaellarusch4317 2 ай бұрын
I love the breakdown of this and would love to see more like it. Thanks John!
@piercebros
@piercebros 2 ай бұрын
This is a fantastic video and investigation!! Thank you to all involved.
@candygeoduck174
@candygeoduck174 Ай бұрын
This is solid OSINT work from SkeletalDemise and foilman, and great reporting emphasizing the appropriate caveats to this work. This was very enriching educational content. One way I think it could have been moreso is if those caveats were explored and extended to their logical conclusions, as in explaining how if at any point the assumptions made were incorrect, how it could unravel the (very convincing) narrative, which for the record I believe. Great video, John!
@hamzaanwar11
@hamzaanwar11 2 ай бұрын
when John made direct contact with destroyer in the video, loved the seriousness and the stiff rightfulness on your face brother.
@slavic_fox98
@slavic_fox98 2 ай бұрын
Cool to see you covering this topic! I'm on my cyber security journey. I find all your videos super interesting! :)
@StormClaw2
@StormClaw2 2 ай бұрын
I thought Destroyer2009 stated that he did this specifically during a large event to force EA to fix the vulnerability?
@user-md1wg3ex6h
@user-md1wg3ex6h 2 ай бұрын
He did as they have no bug bounty program which was mentioned previously. He possibly burned a way to make an easy buck since he could execute server-side commands and give people in-game currency and packs just for the shits and giggles, what he got for it? He got doxxed and witch-hunted by one of the biggest cybersec KZbinrs and schooled about "moral compass" as if doxing an 18 yo in the name of a soulless corporation is morally correct.
@petrseifert5361
@petrseifert5361 Ай бұрын
Yeah. Also that he would report the issue directly to EA if they offered bounty for finding of the exploit.
@Gavtoocold
@Gavtoocold Ай бұрын
It has to be right? All be did was target two players for a short time and even put in the game chat that it was him so the blame wouldn't be on the pros! Like if he really wanted to he could've caused some crazy shit in the ALGS like 1000 bots and flying and shit but he didn't.
@Tmanwith3yearsofwork
@Tmanwith3yearsofwork Ай бұрын
You really buy that?
@iv3995
@iv3995 Ай бұрын
@@Gavtoocoldits publicity to sell his cheats. Why would a person who makes a living selling cheats and has been for years want to fix the exploit. He doesnt care about the state of the game at all he just know that respawn probably wont fix it and he will have his name permanently linked to apex cheats
@4v4
@4v4 2 ай бұрын
In the end, even if you identify him, he's Russian, so you'll never be able to sue him
@outrowed
@outrowed 2 ай бұрын
Curious, what website/service did you used at 9:33? I kinda want to search my own email with this.
@mattw7728
@mattw7728 2 ай бұрын
Very interesting. Great covering of this.
@chanerubin2287
@chanerubin2287 2 ай бұрын
Maybe I missed something, but who confirmed that destroyer2009 actually did this whole thing? I might just be someone using their handle.
@d3c0deFPV
@d3c0deFPV Ай бұрын
I don't think I'd ever make content like this where I personally call out a threat actor and put my face to it; even just someone making game hacks. In any case, your heart seems in the right place and it made an interesting watch. Thanks for the video John. Stay safe.
@jeffreyb4193
@jeffreyb4193 2 ай бұрын
Thank you John, I really enjoy all of your content. I must admit, I think of hacking in tournaments a bit like athletes using PED's in sports. In sports they utilize drug testing to try to deter those from using PED's and I equate that to online gaming using anti-cheat software in an attempt to deter cheating. Ultimately it is up to the developers to make sure the gameplay is secure as can be. You will always have those looking for the competitive advantage and we must do everything to combat that.
@thebitter6262
@thebitter6262 2 ай бұрын
EA will probably never go into detail about what happened but there are interesting threads on UC on this topic going back to 2019.
@wrt142
@wrt142 Ай бұрын
Do you have any links to the affirmationed articles ?
@FriedEgg101
@FriedEgg101 2 ай бұрын
Seems like he did a public service. This is how you get big companies to make changes. I'm still interested to know if the 2 affected gamers are squeaky clean or not.
@Pikkoroo
@Pikkoroo 2 ай бұрын
I’m just a fan of both, so you can I’m biased but I say this with complete certainty, they are clean. Apex is their profession, you can say that that’s a reason to cheat itself, I disagree with that for Hal and gen and every apex pro currently.
@Pikkoroo
@Pikkoroo 2 ай бұрын
I do agree with your 1st statement 100%
@EmbeddedNick
@EmbeddedNick 2 ай бұрын
what do you mean by squeaky clean? If you're suggesting that you don't know if they're 100% innocent - well they probably are. They're some of the most watched players in their industry and have had significant success at LAN events. Unless they somehow continued their cheating offline during LAN events for many years consecutively, I'd say they're probably clean. Also, with thousands watching them every day, we would probably have seen some weird moments that might prove they're cheating in some way. Not to mention among those thousands, there are many looking to finally find a reason to throw them under the bus and prove they're cheating
@Pikkoroo
@Pikkoroo 2 ай бұрын
@@EmbeddedNickgood thing destroyer2009 didn’t want to frame someone like genburten cause it would’ve worked so many would’ve believed and spread misinformation like a plague
@FriedEgg101
@FriedEgg101 2 ай бұрын
@@EmbeddedNick Fair points. I don't play apex. I guess I was just coming from the angle of, how did two of them get their machines compromised by the same hack vendor? It's easy to be cynical when you don't have all the info.
@Saturate0806
@Saturate0806 2 ай бұрын
Hacking video games should be allowed in dedicated cheater-allowed servers. Hackers will not disappear by just saying it's not allowed. This would allow hackers to have fun, and the game developers to try to fix exploited bugs. Cheating in competitive games will always happen, so the developers needs to keep up with the hackers on detection software.
@spicybaguette7706
@spicybaguette7706 2 ай бұрын
Nahh, part of the thrill is that it's not allowed/illegal. Nothing's preventing them from cheating on the non-cheater-allowed server. He could've responsibly disclosed it but he didn't. It's a shame and if he gets caught, quite honestly a waste of his talent. But that's totally on him
@Crecross
@Crecross 2 ай бұрын
The point of cheating is for the real game.. Why would anyone cheating want to play with other cheaters 💀
@aa898246
@aa898246 2 ай бұрын
@@spicybaguette7706 this isn't really that true. in games where you can do hvh easily (csgo), hvh is way more popular and closet cheating/legit cheating is seen as lame
@pitche
@pitche 2 ай бұрын
It was so fun to watch John! Great investigation! :)
@DuckySurvivor-fb2xw
@DuckySurvivor-fb2xw 2 ай бұрын
Keep up the good work* been watching you a long time: learning a lot".
@djmalachite
@djmalachite Ай бұрын
This just opened my eyes to how wildly easy it is to find this information
@itsmesteve1081
@itsmesteve1081 Ай бұрын
Ikr he literally just googled his name and found out where he lived lol
@TheGoldenApex
@TheGoldenApex Ай бұрын
As an apex legends player who grinds it a lot, thank you for making this video. Super entertaining and educational. I watched yours and pirate softerwares vids, so awesome!!! Ty Ty Ty❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
@MegaNatebreezy
@MegaNatebreezy 2 ай бұрын
How did you get access to the data breaches that had his information? Are those publicly available?
@catnip202xch.
@catnip202xch. Ай бұрын
Yes. I personally know of 2 that were both breached and took down by the FBI.
@docgraal485
@docgraal485 Ай бұрын
@@catnip202xch.how can I access thjs
@webbster64B
@webbster64B 2 ай бұрын
after EA deleted my accounts for not logging in for a while because I did have internet at the time, and expect me to buy the games again, I'm siding with destroyer2009
@lfcbpro
@lfcbpro 2 ай бұрын
Apex is FREE-to-play. ???
@Pikkoroo
@Pikkoroo 2 ай бұрын
Did this happen on the ea app? Cause why were you using the ea app primarily for your games, I blame you if that’s the case lol
@theairacobra
@theairacobra 2 ай бұрын
@@Pikkoroo it's still ea's fault for making it dogshit
@mtarek2005
@mtarek2005 2 ай бұрын
​@@lfcbproprobably other ea games
@MorbidEel
@MorbidEel Ай бұрын
This sounds a bit strange. Companies usually want to retain players because retaining is cheaper than getting new ones. How long were you gone for?
@EmperorCheed
@EmperorCheed 2 ай бұрын
Timoxa watching this video:
@mathieucaron4957
@mathieucaron4957 Ай бұрын
A drone will find it...
@davidgildegomezperez4364
@davidgildegomezperez4364 2 ай бұрын
Russian is not the only language that is written with the Cyrillic script. It can be perfectly Belarusian language.
@breachbase
@breachbase 2 ай бұрын
Hes actually said in an interview before that he is from Belarus
@spartan1986og
@spartan1986og 2 ай бұрын
Functionally no difference in the current Geo-political environment.
@lembergevgenii298
@lembergevgenii298 2 ай бұрын
​@@spartan1986ogthere is difference you cant say all eu are the same. dont be stupid
@Alfred-Neuman
@Alfred-Neuman 2 ай бұрын
But... Isn't Belarus part of Russia? ;)
@DimkaTsv
@DimkaTsv 2 ай бұрын
Or Ukrainian. Visual difference is in just few letters. At least based on his speech i would not throw this possibility off head. But way he pronounced word "кто" (as "hto", instead of "kto") slightly skews me to either Ukraine or border region of Russia? Timoxa ==> pronounced as Ti-mo-ha (not ~ksa), is diminutive and familiar form of name Timofei. Not very popular name in Russia i might say, but with amount of people, plausible possibility. But, i will note... Imo, but his uploaded video of cheat, and voice in interview do not sound that same for me. Pitch is way different. I guess it is plausible if there is 3+ year difference and he was like 14 to 18 years... Still hard to prove if it is same person. Especially hard to parallelise them as they spoke on two different languages. About emails with different numbers. It may be him, but may be another person. A lot of people are required to register here and there for school work nowadays, and as children they often create accounts with name+number (often suggested). But these discord conversations surely do hint on link between his current discord name and his previous account name. No definitive proof as he denied that cheat forum involvement, but still big piece enough.
@re1ddap
@re1ddap Ай бұрын
what a fantastic video and an absolutely remarkable investigation - hats off! just a few clarifications on this topic from a native russian-speaking perspective: 1. timoxa is actually pronounced as timoha, with an accent on "o". it serves as a shorthand for the russian name Timofey. 2. it's essential to recognize that not everyone who speaks the russian language identifies as "russian" (with aprox. 380kk speakers worldwide). 3. this one is mostly related to the Mande's mistake (who made that inverview video) - dude explicitly stated "I'm Russian". it's worth noting that Belarus (as mentioned in the subtitles) is distinct from Russia. this distinction is further supported by your gmaps activity review, which only spotted locations in Russia. Belarus lies far away from the left pointer on the map.
@erickguzman1406
@erickguzman1406 Ай бұрын
Holy f, this was a beatiful job John. Thank youuu
@user-md1wg3ex6h
@user-md1wg3ex6h 2 ай бұрын
I mean a witch hunt and potential dox or an 18 yo kid is not really worth bragging about. As you said yourself he did it for the shits and giggles and not to gain any monetary income, if your game's security is so bad that an 18 yo can execute server-side commands and give streamers in-game currency and packs you should be happy that all they choose to do is play a stupid prank on a tournament instead of capitalising it to ruin the game. Corporations are not your friends.
@liminalphreak
@liminalphreak Ай бұрын
I agree with this, due to the fact that the corp already faced previous hacks before on Titanfall 2 (I could be wrong, but pretty sure it was also server side) and moments across Apex's lifespan.
@twstdreality
@twstdreality Ай бұрын
I don’t think age matters. Just because they were hacked by an 18 year old, that doesn’t mean that Respawn has bad cyber security. That could just mean that the 18 year old is really good for his age
@Tmanwith3yearsofwork
@Tmanwith3yearsofwork Ай бұрын
Firstly, it's not a "witch hunt." It's bringing justice against a hacker with only harmful intentions; the "shits and giggles" aren't a proper excuse. And if he gets doxed, who cares? He is an adult; he should've known better. And finally, this doesn't signify that the corp has bad security, and maybe they aren't your friends, but neither are adults who go around hacking and causing frustration for the fun of it.
@mr.togrul--9383
@mr.togrul--9383 2 ай бұрын
great investigation !
@abepl
@abepl 2 ай бұрын
it's hard to believe that there was no motivation other than for the lulz. I mean i understand that, as a kid I was oppening my friends CD rom on LAN using some trojan for the lulz, but that was against a friend and very innocent in comparison to this apex hack.
@timhbergstrom499
@timhbergstrom499 2 ай бұрын
Netbus for the win
@Tmanwith3yearsofwork
@Tmanwith3yearsofwork Ай бұрын
The "lulz" aren't a proper excuse, don't go around hacking, end of story.
@tristanlwkns
@tristanlwkns Ай бұрын
Promotion for his hacks?
@arandomguy9474
@arandomguy9474 2 ай бұрын
had fun watching the stream with PS, gotta ask him for more colabs lol. and as usual, great video.
@mountaindewmofo
@mountaindewmofo 2 ай бұрын
Honestly this wouldn't be an issue in ALGS if they had the tournament on a LAN and then streamed from another PC that isn't directly connected to the game somehow and would make the game more fair due to connection issues.
@MorbidEel
@MorbidEel Ай бұрын
Apparently some are done that way since people have mentioned the two streamers have previously won LAN tournaments. Not sure why it isn't being done for seemingly the biggest competition. Of course there is still of the issue of these cheats still being in play for the rest of the players if it doesn't get fixed ...
@yogurtspace2062
@yogurtspace2062 2 ай бұрын
He's probably open about this because game hacking isn't as serious as stealing user data or money, etc. I've never heard of a cheat dev being arrested
@CypherNL
@CypherNL 2 ай бұрын
You have never googled "cheat developer arrested"
@hexlocation
@hexlocation 2 ай бұрын
@@CypherNL Those are mostly from devs who have done other stuff or live in areas like china.
@mirzu42
@mirzu42 2 ай бұрын
There have been even cheaters who have been sued by companies. There was this one kid in early Fortnite days who got sued by Epic Games because he counter claimed Epics DMCA takedown of his youtube video where he promoted his cheats. He probably does not care because he lives in a country that wont do anything about it. Russia is notorious for not doing anything about cyber criminals unless they target Russian citizens.
@yogurtspace2062
@yogurtspace2062 Ай бұрын
​@@CypherNLThose guys were making millions, probably gang related too
@LiEnby
@LiEnby Ай бұрын
​@@hexlocation this guy hacked two major streamers computers, but granted did not do much with their access
@Darkregen9545
@Darkregen9545 2 ай бұрын
The video covered one image saying the IP connection was through a RAT so does that mean they SSH into their PCs from obtaining their IP before the live tournament, or did the end user downloaded something before hand?
@DoctorMGL
@DoctorMGL 2 ай бұрын
that what i thought personally , piratesoftware said the cheat window that appears on gen screen are just "graphics" and thats wrong, gen wouldn't get wallHacks just by an image presented on his screen, those hacks won't function without a driver level application installed on his pc, and how that could be done and how the hacker get his ip address to remote install it on his pc ? he did it thought exploiting : either ssh or one of the 0 day vulnerabilities most likely after he get access to their ip addresses trough the server id itself using reverse tracking, worth mentioning that Microsoft is still Patching 0 day vulnerabilities till today so it could been used instead of ssh.
@BroomopUK
@BroomopUK 2 ай бұрын
I still think these players hacked and there was a back door in the software
@Darkregen9545
@Darkregen9545 Ай бұрын
To address the format window that popped up it wasn't graphics or apart of apex they're not technically wrong saying it's graphics. If you have your graphics card unlocked which the guy admitted he had FPS unlocker installed you would have to unlock your graphics card from windows tamper protection and isolation. You can make format windows transparent and overlay other applications but as soon as you do that the windows pane will be sent back behind the application you clicked on which is what happened he clicked back on apex after seeing that window pop up. The fact John Hammond and pirate software missed that part and jist focused on the fact the window of cheats hacks was transparent and had apex styled text means they forgotten about windows 95, XP days where options like making your format windows transparent and summed up that conclusion by not taking into account the guy said he had fps unlocker software installed not realizing the implication of what that means.
@Darkregen9545
@Darkregen9545 Ай бұрын
@@DoctorMGL ^
@kitchenbriks3685
@kitchenbriks3685 Ай бұрын
I applaud this guy for showing how much work anticheat needs to a larger community. Timoxa is a hero for trolling these publishers with the garbage regular players deal with every day. EAC is a joke right now.
@georgehammond867
@georgehammond867 2 ай бұрын
If these big game companies don't wanna listen about cve, then they get burned by hacker's memory foam.
@silkroad780
@silkroad780 Ай бұрын
You know what you the best? Because you talk slowly and explain from zero, thank you❤
@SwerveMDPhD
@SwerveMDPhD Ай бұрын
John Hammond covering this story? Im intrigued.
@davidbl1981
@davidbl1981 Ай бұрын
Great work to the two guys spending time on this, it’s not always fun and a lot of resources and time goes into it. Also don’t forget - Don’t fact drive (dive) under the influence of speculation 😊 OSINT’ers only real hangover 😅
@dytra_io
@dytra_io Ай бұрын
are you not making the xz video ?
@darkphantom_01
@darkphantom_01 Ай бұрын
I don't think he deserves to be doxxef
@m4rt_
@m4rt_ 2 ай бұрын
I did not know I wanted a true crime like thing for cyber sec... but now I need it.
@olafurfo89
@olafurfo89 Ай бұрын
Knowing how his hack worked, would be fascinating 🤨
@mstarOnYT
@mstarOnYT 2 ай бұрын
If someone manages to get their hands on destroyer, I'm really torn between offering them a position in an internal offensive security team for either EAC/Apex and enforcing punishment
@CrypticBore
@CrypticBore 2 ай бұрын
Hes 18 and ea wouldnt be able to stop the fbi from charging him so its unlikely hed be allowed too. He has to be super careful now. If he was in the states his life couod be over be for it begun and i dont think thats fair.
@MacGuffin1
@MacGuffin1 2 ай бұрын
LMAO EAC... why do you think they havent posted for 5 years? Becuase that's when they woke up to themselves and gave up trying..... Real game hacking is done on the hardware
@lonusu
@lonusu 2 ай бұрын
No company like that will hire him, he is a high risk person, that could go berserker one day and start leaking things
@Morimea
@Morimea 2 ай бұрын
When Valve hack happened around 2003 - Valve also "offered" position at company to hacker, hacker moved to U.S. and fbi got him because Valve protect own interests and dont care about "humans", Valve care about millions of dollars they making. Same here - if that person get offer - it will be "fake and just to trap them". Corporation is your real enemy.
@ReneSteenNielsen
@ReneSteenNielsen 2 ай бұрын
When John H. joined Thor (PirateSoftware) and said: "OH I guess this is just going to be a talk" ... at that point, I knew this video was around the corner.
@tools.shoe.country.quickly
@tools.shoe.country.quickly 2 ай бұрын
thanjs Joe Cyber
@nostalgicnow6001
@nostalgicnow6001 Ай бұрын
You’re amazing 🙌🏾
@jtuuc
@jtuuc 2 ай бұрын
I know it’s cliche to say but he had to be smarter than this regarding his cyber trail right? Why wouldn’t he go through a transfer/offloading phase for all of his work and potential PII?? And we all have multiple emails, accounts, etc…. Once he was done preparing his attack or developing it, he should have isolated and masked all of the potentially identifiable information for ANY entity involved while falsifying things like locations, IPs, VMs etc. Also seems that Destroyer2009 understands his position in Russia is beneficial for hacking purposes to say the least..
@BroomopUK
@BroomopUK 2 ай бұрын
Some people don't care... like me... opsec my toaster
@LiEnby
@LiEnby Ай бұрын
Whats the point if your in a country that wont let the US violate your rights (thats their job..)
@NubiesYT
@NubiesYT Ай бұрын
Do we know if like he possibly used some cross site scripting? I’m not like full immersed into Coding and Such but I did understand that, cross site scripting I wasn’t sure if it would have anything to do with it
@sunbleachedangel
@sunbleachedangel 2 ай бұрын
Judging by the way he speaks russian - he's not from russia, based purely on his accent he's either from belarus or ukraine, and since he said he's from belarus, I would be inclined to believe that I guess
@Shocker99
@Shocker99 2 ай бұрын
John Wick, when does he get on board?
@woritsez
@woritsez 2 ай бұрын
he's probably (& rightfully) proud of his achievements. kid has skills
@nicholaspniewski8377
@nicholaspniewski8377 2 ай бұрын
Hands down favorite part was the discord conversations and making your avatar an Anime avatar 😂 why did you choose to do that?
@luketurner314
@luketurner314 2 ай бұрын
Having bad opsec and then there's an osint investigation: "That man is playing Galaga. Thought we wouldn't notice, but we did" (Avengers)
@xCheddarB0b42x
@xCheddarB0b42x Ай бұрын
The moment that Regulators or Federal law makers touch gaming or online gaming is the moment it dies. BT
@rodricbr
@rodricbr 2 ай бұрын
bro's email is the most obvious thing a hacker would guess
@kartik180rajesh1
@kartik180rajesh1 Ай бұрын
No video on the xz backdoor hack yet?
@elib2559
@elib2559 Ай бұрын
it didn't go far as it was noticed before being pushed to stable build. It was a dude that social engineered to get his code edits pushed to production on XZ Utilities GitHub. That would later hook into openSSH connections on server environments like in Debian.
@helmetboyHD
@helmetboyHD Ай бұрын
This is a masterclass in OSINT
@crys_o
@crys_o 2 ай бұрын
Has it been ruled out that the players weren't using cheats created by Destroyer/Temoxa containing a backdoor and he just trolled them hard publicly? It seems strange that a global event involving millions of dollars in prize money isn't being conducted on private servers on a segmented network. Or are multimillion dollar gaming tournaments just hosted on public internet where they can be hacked by anyone? Is that because the servers always have to be connected to the internet for dynamic anti-piracy/anti-cheat stuff? I guess it doesn't matter anyway, cause cheaters are gonna cheat and hackers gonna hack. Unless you fully lock down tournaments with segmented networks, no external devices allowed and player searches it's going to keep happening.
@monstermasher86
@monstermasher86 Ай бұрын
love to see how the hacks actually work. like an overlay on just that users machine?
@mossdem
@mossdem 2 ай бұрын
This was a great video but my real question is... picoCTF 2024 series? 👀🤣
@THRE3KINGZStudios3kz
@THRE3KINGZStudios3kz 2 ай бұрын
What games do you play John
@binaryrun
@binaryrun 2 ай бұрын
can we get some timestamps John? thank you
@ArtyomGalstyan
@ArtyomGalstyan Ай бұрын
5:45 There is a high probability that Timoxa is a name derived from shortened russian name Тимоха pronounced as Timokha. It might indicate that the guys full name is Timofey which is Тимофей in russian.
@DarkspiritLyllianaTV
@DarkspiritLyllianaTV Ай бұрын
I think what he did is exposing most of corporation or game ondustry of how their games pretty much has lot of security exploits on it
@FedtTony
@FedtTony Ай бұрын
You could argue that exposing their shitty security to the world is a good thing, but yes there are better ways to do it
@francoiscoetzee1686
@francoiscoetzee1686 Ай бұрын
Personally any type of hack that is used to gain advantage over the normal person should be a crime, whether you are the buyer or the seller, it should be treated the same. its to easy for kids these days to pick up a cheat and run with it coz whats the worst that can happen in most games? you get banned, start a new account and just continue. if the youth start to learn that your decisions and actions have actual lawful repercussions then they might think twice before doing this shit. Thank you very much for the video, i just subscribed
@INTEL77
@INTEL77 2 ай бұрын
very good I will be waiting for the report on doxbin
@decryptic999
@decryptic999 2 ай бұрын
Apex should discipline the hackers. But not with jail time, or fines. Block access to all their Servers for the Hackers. What Apex now should do, is learn from that mistake and upgrade their security, ASAP.
@zheil9152
@zheil9152 2 ай бұрын
Oh you innocent soul. That isn’t how that works at all.
@m4rt_
@m4rt_ 2 ай бұрын
btw, that alphabet is Cyrillic, it's the alphabet used for Russian, but it's not only for Russian.
@magicshon
@magicshon 2 ай бұрын
Good intention? There is one. EA should fix their shit and not be that greedy
@0xbyt3z
@0xbyt3z 2 ай бұрын
how these teenagers manage to do all these things.
@TheLegitAlpha
@TheLegitAlpha 2 ай бұрын
You hear about the XZ utils backdoor yet?
@SzaboB33
@SzaboB33 2 ай бұрын
This video was so good, it felt like 5 minutes :D
@richietinashe9677
@richietinashe9677 Ай бұрын
The OSINT here is crazy🙌🏾
@RareSolstice
@RareSolstice Ай бұрын
18:47 I can’t beleive Respawn as a company can’t sue him For doing that that’s crazy.
@ikegaimusic222
@ikegaimusic222 Ай бұрын
whoever done the osint that guy is beast
@devoosdude9809
@devoosdude9809 2 ай бұрын
Timoxa - probably poor transliteration of Timoha- Timothy
@SudoYETI
@SudoYETI 2 ай бұрын
Honestly on one hand I hate cheaters. However on the other hand if doing so in such a public way forces EA's hand into putting resources behind fixing the cheating problems in Apex, I'm for that.
@CoughSyrup
@CoughSyrup Ай бұрын
Well, as far as I am aware, he hasnt broken any laws. The guy is cheating at video games FFS.
@ianmurphy6903
@ianmurphy6903 Ай бұрын
Im glad he cant get caught. Its EA fault for running a 5 mil tournament with bad security. Thats negligent, plain and simple. Yes he did damage, but in the way I would do damage to my muscles to make them stronger.
@MANwith4050
@MANwith4050 2 ай бұрын
sir my Gmail account has been recently hacked which was linked with youtube so how could i recover it can you please help me in doing this
@imuruncledaddy8753
@imuruncledaddy8753 Ай бұрын
I take the old gamer stance... GET GOOD! Security just needs to step up.
@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally
@BooksAndShitButNotLiterally Ай бұрын
Yessss thanks for doing this!
@RandomGeometryDashStuff
@RandomGeometryDashStuff Ай бұрын
11:16 how do you know youtube channel's google account's email?
@needabettername1559
@needabettername1559 Ай бұрын
ghunt
@thewelder3538
@thewelder3538 2 ай бұрын
As someone who does security for a living, I can't say that I blame the hacker. Sure, they did the hack and it caused problems, but the issue is about that they shouldn't have been able to do the hack in the first place. You're always going to have to deal with threat actors, but they only exist because of the holes in the security.
@komismo
@komismo 2 ай бұрын
this kid gets the attention he wants.. that dad mode is bone chilling
@Miitxk
@Miitxk Ай бұрын
I just thought I would say this, when you said it was just for kicks, that is only partially true. While I am sure he did do it for fun, the other reason for him pulling off these large super public hacks was to raise awareness of how terrible ea's anticheat is as cheating has been a huge issue in the apex legends scene recently. In higher ranked lobbies, you run into cheaters so often.
@_mrcrypt
@_mrcrypt 2 ай бұрын
This is why we CTF 🏴‍☠️
@6Catz
@6Catz Ай бұрын
as someone with over 1k hours in apex im glad he hacked the game because he proved that respawn and EA dont care about the game or people playing the game when the hack happened they put out a sale in the in game shop to say sorry who the fuck cares we dont feel safe having our banking info on the game anymore I am happy he did this and i hope he does it again to stop a mega billion dollar corparation form exploiting their players
@_xpl0it_
@_xpl0it_ 2 ай бұрын
I personally don't think there should be reprepercussions because if these companies fail to secure their shit, it's their fault. Also they (EA) atleast had some idea about these cheat software in the market and still they failed to manage it so can't blame "Destroyer2009". Infact their internal security team couldn't even uncover this. It's credit to those two guys who actually managed to get this information and even helped EA with this.
@tswdev
@tswdev Ай бұрын
Man, I kind of feel like pulling the kid behind me, putting my hands forward and say "hey hey, chill the fuck out guys".
@kenkaneshki432
@kenkaneshki432 2 ай бұрын
This video is sounds like a little bit darknet diaries podcasts...🙂
@th3gl1tch81
@th3gl1tch81 Ай бұрын
Companies have a lot of money they only want to give to the top executives. They deserve to get meme'd
@hiamealhilwa6684
@hiamealhilwa6684 Ай бұрын
This is what hackers do! If I could do this I would
@RICK_MCN
@RICK_MCN 2 ай бұрын
They will fu*k up one day and they will pay I hope anyways. Because one day there will be a game that can't be hacked but I don't think that will ever happen unfortunately. Because that's what ruins the game for people like me. I would like to have a games where I don't have to have the Internet to play like nowadays. Unfortunately that will never be a thing anymore..
@s3ns1
@s3ns1 Ай бұрын
not suprised that he get busted noob-blood.
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