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Ben Brundage

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111 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

I had this Android phone that I used for reverse engineering.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

As one does.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

Yeah, exactly, as one does.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

I was so stressed during this time.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

But I think I had set up this tracking, I had this running for a week, and I saw this domain keep popping up called xd.resi.to.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And to me, that really stood out.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

I was like, oh, that's really interesting.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

I wonder what's going on here.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And it turns out that this was what they were using for their initial access or compromising the devices.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And so it's like, oh, you know, I kind of understand how they're doing it now.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

I understand how easy it is.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And then I think it was also a bit like scary, right?

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

Like you can see all these domains and what people are sending requests to.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And you see this one domain that's just the very like top here.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And it just means that they're compromising just devices at an unseen scale before.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

I think this was towards the end of finals.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

Even though I'm not the best student, there's definitely a degree of like, you know, I have parents that love me.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

And so I have to do these things because otherwise, you know, they give me a bit of grief for it.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

Exactly right.

The Journal.
The College Student Who Defeated the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon

So I was just trying to wrap everything up.