[HN Gopher] Who and What Is Behind the Malware Proxy Service Soc...
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Who and What Is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?
Author : warrenm
Score : 90 points
Date : 2023-08-01 11:40 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (krebsonsecurity.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (krebsonsecurity.com)
| hospitalJail wrote:
| [flagged]
| ipaddr wrote:
| Couldn't a criminal leave enough info to point to someone else?
| Then Krebs exposes a mark.
| vuln wrote:
| That's what the CIA does. See shadow brokers and the toolkit
| used to "change" attribution.
| casey2 wrote:
| Yep this is what happens most of the time.
| burnte wrote:
| Is there evidence to support that "most of the time" he
| unmasks marks instead of the real actors?
| Thoeu388 wrote:
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| lifeinthevoid wrote:
| Kudos to him for doing and publishing the research, I would
| personally be a little bit afraid to expose criminals and
| criminal organizations.
| jdjdjdhhd wrote:
| It would not be the first time that it would bite him back
| Run_DOS_Run wrote:
| There have been several attacks against Brian Krebs in the
| past. From sending heroin* to his house, to adding his name to
| malware ("malware created by Brian Krebs"). This is because he
| always posts pictures and full names of criminals and is also
| why I have no sympathy for Brian Krebs, as I dislike online
| pillories and the rehabilitation of criminals is made massively
| more difficult this way. Nevertheless, attacks against him are
| of course to be condemned.
|
| * https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/interview-with-the-
| guy-w...
| geek_at wrote:
| And don't forget the funeral wreath sent to his home address
| with his wife's and his name on them. That guy is not afraid
| of anything
| x86_64Ubuntu wrote:
| Damn, that's a cold message to send someone.
| cheeseomlit wrote:
| The criminals he exposes are absolute scum, I doubt their
| attacks against him would be much less severe had he only
| exposed their operations and not their identity. They have no
| qualms swatting people who are completely innocent, if Krebs
| pulled punches with them I highly doubt theyd reciprocate
| pizzalife wrote:
| I'm all for rehabilitation, but let's not kid ourselves.
| These Russian cybercriminals who have been in business for
| over a decade aren't going to just turn around and suddenly
| become productive members of global society.
| [deleted]
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| That is not the reason for being against publishing the name
| of these complete and utter scumbags.
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| The only reason not to publish names is that there's always
| the risk of a false positive.
| Thoeu388 wrote:
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