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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Discord and Minecraft servers are part of an ecosystem where young people brag about crimes. SIM swapping, cryptocurrency, extortion, and violence-for-hire are all part of an disparate online community where people gather to swap stories and videos about crime. It’s called The Comm, and this week on Cyber, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox comes on the show to tell us all about it.
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Stories discussed in this episode:
Firebombs and Shootings: The Rise of IRL Harassment and Violence as a Service
'The Comm': The Group Linked to a Nationwide Swatting Rampage
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0:00.0 | Tadmin's got the code it's going to launch. |
0:10.4 | It's a unit system. |
0:12.7 | I know this. |
0:14.8 | It's all the files of the whole park. |
0:17.0 | It tells her everything. |
0:18.7 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
0:21.5 | Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
0:25.4 | Hello out there on the internet. |
0:27.6 | I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. |
0:31.0 | Let's start this week off with a little story. |
0:34.6 | Quote, a video shot on a phone, scans a small bedroom, |
0:41.2 | showing the grisly aftermath of what I was told was a robbery. |
0:49.9 | Dried blood smeared across MacBook Pro, a pair of pliers on an unmade bed, and more blood speckled across the floor and walls. |
0:55.7 | A set of photos show a young man in his underwear restrained with zip on his wrists, and a small syringe of what one person claimed was heroin. The boy's captors threatened to inject |
1:01.5 | him with it unless he handed over his cryptocurrency. Macbooks, Crypto, Minecraft, Crime, |
1:09.5 | with us here today to talk about it all is motherboard reporter Joseph Cox. |
1:14.3 | Sir, how are you doing today? |
1:16.7 | All good, all good. |
1:17.5 | Thank you for having me on again. |
1:19.6 | All right. |
1:19.9 | So this is a follow-up story. |
1:21.8 | It's something that we talked about a few weeks ago called the Com. |
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