94: Mariposa

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Chris Davis has been stopping IT security threats for decades. He’s currently running the company Hyas that he started. In this episode he tells a few tales of some threats that he helped stop. Sponsors Support for this show comes from Exabeam. Exabeam lets security teams see what traditional tools can’t, with automated threat detection and triage, complete visibility across the entire IT environment and advanced behavioral analytics that distinguishes real threats from perceived ones, so security teams stay ahead and businesses keep moving — without fear of the unknown. Learn more by visiting exabeam.com/dd. Support for this show comes from Blinkist. They offer thousands of condensed non-fiction books, so you can get through books in about 15 minutes. Check out Blinkist.com/DARKNET to start your 7 day free trial and get 25% off when you sign up. View all active sponsors. Sources https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-curador-pleads-guilty-to-credit-card-theft/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/hackers/ https://archive.org/details/frontline_202009/Frontline-+Hackers/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB https://defintel.com/docs/Mariposa_Analysis.pdf https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/03/french-firms-rocked-by-kasbah-hacker/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jack, posted the show.
0:02.0	I was talking with some online criminals the other day, which I guess I talked to criminals a lot.
0:06.5	It's kind of weird.
0:08.5	But someone told me a story that really put me in deep thought.
0:12.0	Okay, so the story goes, and I have no way of confirming this is true, but this guy swears it's true.
0:17.5	He told me that he knows this guy, an online scam or hacker, a criminal guy who was caught and arrested in 2016.
0:24.5	Now, at that time, Bitcoin was just worth $600 per coin.
0:28.5	The police sees everything from this guy.
0:30.5	His computers, his phones, all electronics, CDs, some drives, everything.
0:36.0	But they didn't take his notebook.
0:38.5	And in that notebook was the private key to his Bitcoin wallet.
0:43.5	He was able to stash it in a safe place before going to prison.
0:47.0	Currently, he's still in prison, and Bitcoin has risen above $30,000 per coin.
0:53.5	The sky's wallet has 18 big coins in it.
0:57.0	He's due to get out next year.
0:59.0	And the police still don't know about his hidden Bitcoin.
1:02.5	It was only worth $10,000 when he got arrested.
1:05.5	But today, it's worth almost a million dollars.
1:09.0	All he'll need to do to get that Bitcoin is to find the private key in that notebook he wrote down five years ago.
1:16.0	And that's such a trip for me to think about.
1:18.5	A criminal losing everything, starting from scratch.
1:22.5	But the day he walks out of jail, he'll be a millionaire.
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