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> spurring fears among criminals that their identities might be exposed I imagine there is very little to gain from the leaked credentials. I mean we are talki
by cyberlab 6y ago
> spurring fears among criminals that their identities might be exposed
I imagine there is very little to gain from the leaked credentials. I mean we are talking about cyber-criminals, who always like to mess with their real IP with Tor or VPNs. And who would be stupid enough to use their legal name on a darkweb carding forum?
- ryanlol 6y agoPeople have lost hundreds of thousands because they reused their forum logins on jabber... Lots (most?) of the people on these forums aren’t hackers, but banking experts moving tens of millions of stolen money around the world.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoHow did they lose the money, impersonation? Are they running some informal banking/laundering system via jabber chats?
- ryanlol 6y agoHey, here’s my new bitcoin address for payments: Hey, here’s the new bank account info to send stolen money to: Hey bro, can you borrow me 100k for a few days?
- nullCommand 6y agoWe simply ask the user to install an App to iOS or Android that gives us two factor codes. This is done with the user contest. At least, that's how I do these things.
- nullCommand 6y agoWhat's stolen? The user gave contest to us. We are simply acting to that contest. The US GOV need to focus more on Tether not us because Tether steals billions of dollars directly from economy. Everybody know who is Merlin!
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoPeople make mistakes.
- klingon79 6y agoOr people just make it look like they’ve made mistakes. Maybe this was an elaborate honeytrap set by the hackers for the hacker hackers. Possibly an AI independently hacked the hackers. A hacker may have convinced an AI to hack the hackers while posing as the hacker hackers. The AI then hacked the hackers’ honeytrap which exposed one single piece of data included by mistake. Only the AI knows why, since the hacker was brainwashed by a secret society of vegans. News at 11.
- alksjdalkj 6y agoYou'd be surprised, after 10+ years worth of accounts and online presence it's easy to trip up - reuse an account name from years earlier, use their real email to register for a domain, etc. Krebsonsecurity.com has a few articles where he tracks down an attacker's real identity - e.g. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/twitter-hacking-for-profit-and-the-lols/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/twitter-hacking-for-prof...