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RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by amatecha »

tyingq wrote: post #72
meowface wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>These people tend not to be the brightest. Well, for those that are bright, you don't hear anything at all. So it's hard to characterize all of them. I hear something similar on shows like Dateline about how not-bright the murderers are. Yet only about half of homicides are solved in the US every year.

Yes, so often you will hear the testimony of investigators like "if he hadn't [done single mistake], we never would have caught him". You can hear it in every true crime show like that.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by NavinF »

infiniteL0Op wrote: post #109
bduerst wrote: post #93

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Yep, and throw in that humans are just bad at estimating statistics. Like the birthday paradox : If there are just 23 people in a room, then there's a 50% probability that two people share the same birthday.

What's the math behind this? And is this for day-month or day-month-year?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

This for day-month.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

kodah wrote: post #20
sydthrowaway wrote: post #7

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It's meant to be as garish as possible. It's the modern day equivalent of a branding iron. You got pwned!

Actually, you're spot on. They started doing these style of splash pages a few years after hacking groups did.

I wonder how far in advance of the actual seizure do they get these graphics ready. Or, perhaps they JIT them and delay the seizure until the final graphic is finished and signed off?

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by baby »

sweetbitter wrote: post #120
baby wrote: post #68

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dude, opsec is really really hard, the slightest mistake and it's over.

It's only that hard if the person in question is dumb enough to be using a pseudonym instead of opting for anonymity, since having a name opens up your attack surface and chance to fail. Hosting a site or some kind of infrastructure that you have to actively interface with also counts towards this.

Anonimity is more than just using a pseudonym.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by zdragnar »

nyolfen wrote: post #129
TacticalCoder wrote: post #40

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> 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…

speaking of parallel construction, did you hear about the mass shooter on the brooklyn subway today? they said they ID'd him because he left his credit card at the scene.

Did they? I'd only heard they were considering the card name a person of interest, which would make sense if they'd either accounted for everyone else at the scene but the name on the card, or are looking for witnesses who might have more info.

Edit: Breaking news is that the card is indeed believed to be from the attacker. Aside from photos on social media, the suspect also left behind a bag of other weapons and a key to a U-Haul van. I'm guessing the card may have been in said bag. I'm not really sure there is much to suspect parallel construction here.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by Gollapalli »

Firehawke wrote: post #80
tyingq wrote: post #72

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>These people tend not to be the brightest. Well, for those that are bright, you don't hear anything at all. So it's hard to characterize all of them. I hear something similar on shows like Dateline about how not-bright the murderers are. Yet only about half of homicides are solved in the US every year.

Yeah, absolutely this. There's a bias towards the low end of the skill/intelligence curve as those guys get caught doing really stupid shit and end up in the news as a result. I was looking over Wikipedia articles on software piracy groups of the 1980s/90s the other day and it was really interesting how many of them died to either a blatantly stupid move on the part of one of their members/leadership resulting in the…

We had one running for president just a couple years back. Sadly, I don't like him much, nor do many from his home state. But it's kind of cool that he went from hacker to political candidate.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by joe_the_user »

paulpauper wrote: post #99
frontman1988 wrote: post #31

Amazing how the perp started the website at 14 and gradually turned it into the top data leaks site in the world. To be able to build a multi million dollar illegal marketplace and not get caught for 7 years was quite an achievement in itself. Alas you just have to slip once and the party's over.

not really. unless it involves contraband, terrorism, or kid porn, the feds will not care that much. they will get to it eventually but it is not a top priority. Also they need many years to built an airtight case.

This is pure speculation but if I were the Feds, I'd let insecure, incompetently run forums to keep operating and shut down any secure, tightly run forums.

The insecure forum can simply be hacked and basically become honeypots.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by jrumbut »

tzs wrote: post #130
RajT88 wrote: post #34

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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…

> I am always surprised at how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. I'm surprised at how few times I've run into people I know when out and about shopping or doing other normal daily activities. I live and work in a town with a population of around 11k. Coworkers live in that town, or one about 9 miles away with a population of around 22k, or one with a population of about 41k…

Same, yet strangely enough I keep bumping into unexpected people in airports.

Re: RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested

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Post by jrumbut »

cwkoss wrote: post #113

This is pretty funny, imo: --- Not all of those undercover buys went as planned. One incident described in an affidavit by prosecutors (PDF) appears related to the sale of tens of millions of consumer records stolen last year from T-Mobile, although the government refers to the victim only as a major telecommunications company and wireless network operator in the United States. [...] The government says the victim fi…

It's likely posturing for the inevitable lawsuits plus a lottery ticket on a great outcome.
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