RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested • Hacker News Board

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by ev1 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:50 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #45

TacticalCoder wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent I called complete, total and utter bullshit. That's a parallel con…

There is a chance of that.

e: yeah, that makes sense I guess

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by lettergram » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:50 PM UTC

> an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged administrator of RaidForums — 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho, of Portugal — with six criminal counts, including conspiracy, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Some thing doesn’t add up

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by throwmeariver1 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:51 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #40

jacquesm wrote: post #2

"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…

> Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent I called complete, total and utter bullshit. That's a parallel con…

I bet he thought the exact same thing ;0)

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:52 PM UTC

ev1 wrote: post #51

jacquesm wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a chance of that.

e: yeah, that makes sense I guess

But that's the whole beauty of parallel construction: you don't know if they found that out before or after...

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by powersnail » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:54 PM UTC

karmicthreat wrote: post #5

I wish the DOJ had a better designer for their domain seizure graphics.

If I didn't read the news first, I'd never guessed that the image is actually made by a law enforcement agency. It looks like some script-kiddie's prank from 20 years ago.

I like it though. A bit of punk spirit.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by rosndo » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #40

jacquesm wrote: post #2

"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…

> Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent I called complete, total and utter bullshit. That's a parallel con…

> Very few people get their devices searched (I know maybe one in 100) and, oh-the-coincidence, this guy happens to be that "Omnipotent" admin of a cybercrime forum?

That’s not what the text really suggests. It very clearly states:

> The government obtained a warrant

Which obviously means that he wasn’t randomly searched at the border, but the government knew who he was.

It’s not parallel construction, just poor wording by Krebs.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by bombcar » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:59 PM UTC

RajT88 wrote: post #34

jacquesm wrote: post #2

"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…

I am always surprised at how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. I mean, what are the odds? I only had it happen once, but it was nuts. A guy from my previous company I ran into randomly in Frankfurt while I was on my way to India. He lives in California, I live in Chicago. We were on the same flight to Bangalore . Our trips had nothing to do with each other, other than we bot…

From what I read once, the chance is significantly higher than you expect, something like if you are in a major airport, there's a 50% chance someone you know is also at the same airport.

This is because the group of people who travel often is surprisingly small, and so overlap will happen much more likely than you think.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by sonicggg » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 7:59 PM UTC

meowface wrote: post #3

jacquesm wrote: post #2

"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…

Not to mention the following paragraph: >“In an attempt to retrieve his items, Coelho called the lead FBI case agent on or around August 2, 2018, and used the email address unrivalled@pm.me to email the agent,” the government’s affidavit states. Investigators found this same address was used to register rf.ws and raid.lol, which Omnipotent announced on the forum would serve as alternative domain names for RaidForums…

They could find legitimate work, yes, but you're forgetting that they do it for the thrill. Just like people can be passionated for their careers, so can a black hat hacker or a scammer also find pleasure in his craft. Not saying it's the right thing, but I understand the appeal.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by 349ecb77cd62 » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:07 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #40

jacquesm wrote: post #2

"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…

> Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent I called complete, total and utter bullshit. That's a parallel con…

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21583486-220317-raid...

The middleman service used his personal, verified, Coinbase account. The raidforums domains were his customer service website and contact emails for Coinbase, Kraken, and PayPal. His personal gmail used recovery@raidforums.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by Teandw » Tue, Apr 12, 2022, 8:08 PM UTC

TacticalCoder wrote: post #40

jacquesm wrote: post #2

"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent." Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like th…

> Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent I called complete, total and utter bullshit. That's a parallel con…

I think you may have just read the timeline of events incorrectly as what was said makes perfect sense?

This was a multi-country investigation. The USA were likely already aware of Coelho so when he entered the US, he was then arrested by US authorities upon landing. It doesn't say his devices were searched there and then. It said a warrant was obtained to search his device, so they would needed to have a valid reason to apply for that warrant.

You seem to be reading it as if they had no idea who he was and they randomly searched someone's electronic devices and just happened to be this guy. That's not what they're saying happened?