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Lots of people commenting that the text of the email seems amateurish. Perhaps it’s exactly as it should be, but you don’t understand its purpose. Maybe they wa
by IAmGraydon 5y ago
Lots of people commenting that the text of the email seems amateurish. Perhaps it’s exactly as it should be, but you don’t understand its purpose. Maybe they wanted this to be discussed on netsec forums everywhere, so that Google searches for “Vinny Troia” always lead back to discussion about this email, framing him as a cyber criminal and outranking legitimate posts about or by him - an online identity assassination. They needed the email to set off some alarm bells so that it would pique enough interest to be widely discussed. They appear to have widely targeted the email addresses of system admins. I’m fairly certain this was their intention.
Also, does it strike anyone else as odd that the account that posted this to HN was created hours ago, for the sole purpose of starting this thread?
- chillingeffect 5y agoDon't know of Vinny, but if he's a security guy, maybe one of his colleagues is pranking him? My college buddies did this kind of stuff to one another. They would die laughing at finding a way to legit send spam through the fbi.
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- agency 5y agoLove to commit high profile cyber crime that could land me in prison, as a prank.
- bink 5y agoIf this is (as it appears it might be) simply a reflection attack of some sort, I'm not sure what crime could've been committed. Or at least what computer crime could've been committed. Impersonating a federal official is about the only thing I can think of.
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- VRay 5y agoI want to live in the techno-libertarian Utopia you think this is
- kelnos 5y agoLike it or not, this seems like a pretty easy CFAA case. Sending email through a server you're not permitted to access sounds like it would constitute a CFAA violation.
- sodality2 5y agoThis would get the book thrown at you in any court of law. Hacking FBI email servers is what happened. The IP and subdomain are FBI.
- xtracto 5y agoThe max headroom TV signal hijack guy was never found... and THAT was a high profile prank.
- reasonabl_human 5y agoHadn’t heard of this, what a strange read
- oefrha 5y ago> does it strike anyone else as odd that the account that posted this to HN was created hours ago, for the sole purpose of starting this thread? That is not odd. I also use throwaways to post potentially sensitive information, or information that might rub powerful institutions the wrong way. The rest of your post is within the realms of reason.
- blamazon 5y agoIf you look at Vinny Troia’s YouTube channel, he gave a media interview regarding members of “TheDarkOrder” being arrested for ransomware. One potential explanation is that this is retaliation for same.
- sodality2 5y agoIt's gotta be retaliation. See these reports about TheDarkOverlord that Vinny Troia has released: https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-shinyhunters/ https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-... https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-shinyhunters/ https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-...