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Liam Amarku

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134 total appearances

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Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

So he had the hacked account information there as well.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

And we could see how many machines they had infected.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

And we could basically see the entire campaign.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

attack the entire fraud campaign from beginning to end right in that one screenshot.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

And it was just a total encapsulation of all their fraud in one picture.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

So when I was seeing IP addresses that I thought could identify the address of the attackers, it turns out they're using directional antennas to steal their neighbor's Wi-Fi.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

So the addresses that I was seeing were very rarely their actual home address.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

And I had to look at the data very, very carefully to understand when they slipped up and they weren't using their neighbor's stolen Wi-Fi.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

They were actually using their own home IP address by mistake.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

And those slip-ups are very, very rare.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

What we had estimated they'd made over the entire length of the operation, because they'd been operating for 10 years and we didn't have accounting for all of those years, but we could see a lot of the output and we were able to estimate over the given period that it was about 40 million.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

And then how big was the botnet?

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

Botnet reached a maximum of about 450,000 machines, and at any one particular time, they had hundreds of thousands of machines operating.

Darknet Diaries
175: Bayrob

See where AI is going and see if we can cut through the AI hype.

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