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Craig Jones

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Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

And we could tell in the logs that they...

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

they were mistyping the password, you know?

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

And, you know, the person who'd obviously taken the key had obviously tried to relay onto another person, and they were mistyping this thing.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

And it was kind of crazy.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

You immediately knew then that this wasn't just, like, a dude.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

You know, this was a serious operation.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

I think it was April 21st.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

Well, we actually had an external bug bounty report as a SQLI injection.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

And what was kind of weird about it was, you know, I remember the user actually claiming to be from Australia, but they had a Chinese name, you know.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

Now, at the time, we didn't have amazing telemetry from any of the software firewalls.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

We had kind of base telemetry, which gave you like... It was really designed for product managers to understand what features that users were using.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

So they understood where to put their kind of limited resource time into, right?

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

So we had that, and we had a really good idea of like...

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

where all of the serial numbers for these devices sat and their IP addresses associated to it.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

So it's always kind of interesting to correlate the IP with the intended location of the researcher.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

So we got a researcher's device.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

It's one that had never been turned on before, which was pretty suspicious.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

It had never been registered.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

It was a serial number that had just come from a web trial of a VM.

Darknet Diaries
174: Pacific Rim

And