I love how every hack that you are warned about these days is like... 10 years old... It's getting harder and harder to know what to warn your parents against...
The fact is, hackers come out with new ones frequently. In the time someone takes to notice a hack then destroy it, the hacker will have developed a new one. Its never ending struggle.
1. Don't click on anything flashing. 2. Don't click on anything selling you anything. 3. Don't click on anything that makes your address change more than twice.
@@asandax6 Clicking on things in web browsers isnt even too bad anymore , browser exploits ar very very expensive nowanays, im talking half a million to a million. just dont run untrusted files and you should be good
@@bubzuru The reason I wrote that is because there are some websites that can use your device resources to do stuff you don't want them to do. Like some websites can mine crypto in your machine using only javascript. Some mobile websites here in africa do WASP hacks by signing you up to mobile services that will take your airtime little by little. I don't know why mobile operators haven't stopped these types of services. They can even extract your cellphone number from the browser and start sending spam sms ads.
The fact that I got the fbi virus on my computer when I was in highschool trying to download music from a site 😂 my mom thought I was watching porn it was dreadful but it made me jump back into IT 😭 7 years later and I’m glad it happened best career of my life
This is hilarious. I was in 9th grade and my friends and I had gotten hands on some cracked windows 7. I put it on my other friends laptop and he had contracted the same FBI ransomware 😂
honestly best way to protect yourself from "we recorded you 'having fun' through your webcam" is to not have webcam connected or have it covered/turned off, then there is not even a shadow of a doubt whether its a problem or not
Or just be like me and have no shame Send that shit to my mom, she's already wiped my ass hundreds of times and gives less than a fuck than I do Send that shit to my coworkers, so they can find out I get laid more than them with a smaller dick 🤣 Send it to my bosses, we'd both get a laugh! And I dont work in a field that would be offended by someone else blackmailing me, if anything one of them will probably help me find whoever's behind it and come with me for a visit Shit, the moment I find out there's someone taking over my webcam, Im installing a wireless cam in my toilet that'l only be on when I shit "You're in my house, bitch" will predate every degeneratr thing I force the hacker to watch, Ill be too much of a nuisance to bother
Hackers "Hahaha, we got you. Send us a money or we'll tell everyone you love about your porn habits" Me "Go ahead, cause what they think I watch is far worse then what I actually watch. You'd be doing me a favor."
This happened to my sister working in the mid east on Monday… she was scared .. since she’s in an Arab country…working there… glad you covered it now I can share this with her… though she wasn’t watching porn … she was looking for free movies
Its just as well she wasn't watching porn! Some of these countries in the Middle East are known for their horrible, misogynistic treatment of women, in society in general and within the law too. Can't imagine what kind of punishment a woman would receive for a "crime" such as this in any of these states. A man would have a pretty harsh punishment, but it would be significantly worse for a woman. Hope your sister is okay and got out of the situation with as little difficulty as possible.
I got hit with ransomware around 2012 and got lucky. Pulling the laptop battery out and turning the computer back on seemed to do the trick. I also had some random number try to extort me, saying they filmed me having some personal fun (I keep tape over my front facing cameras). Knowing it was a bluff, I sent a real photo of my junk along with the caption, "do what you want, here's one more you can shove up your..." you get the idea lol He cursed me out in broken English and nothing happened! Now, I send a junk pic to every scammer I can, it's a bit of a hobby at this point. I figure if I can waste an hour of their time only for them to get nothing but an insulting pic, that's time they couldn't spend on someone who'd have possibly fallen for their scam.
My stepmother got hit with ransomware. I simply booted the laptop in safe mode, went through and ran an antivirus on administrator, confirmed everything was ok, and then talked to her to try and figure out where the bloody hell it came from and what she had clicked on before it happened. In this case I think it was a pretty crude piece of ransomware to be defeated so easily, but it still goes to demonstrate how wide ranging this stuff is.
@@sigmamale4147 That's what I'm thinking. It was just a stupid virus that covered up the screen when you tried to boot it. Not really ransomware for anyone with a lick of knowledge, but for someone older like my stepmother it was enough to freak her out because she had no idea what to do.
@GH0STST4RSCR34M I had one of those when I was around 8-9 yrs old , on my family's first pc within about 4-5 months of buying it. Didn't know anything back then and I was terrified when that happened.
I flooded a Canadian porn IP as a 14 year old in 1996 taking them offline. They wanted to sue. When they found out I was 14 and cried on the phone they let me off with writing them an apology. My mum was furious. 😳
I responded to the email I got that they were going to release a pic of me beating it. I said thank you, because everyplace else was going to charge me to do that, so I appreciate the free advertisement.
I stay up late on Thursdays and look forward to these videos. I discovered you a few months back. Thank you for these awesome stories! You are a great story teller!
This is why I use Linux. Good luck locking down my laptop. In the very early days of the web I was browsing and suddenly across my browser text appeared "now you know why you should lock down your browser" and my PC crashed. The lesson was learnt.
I am wondering, if one used adblocker (Ublock Origin) and noscript addons would that not help prevent this sort of thing? One cannot click on an ad if there are not ads been displayed on screen, or ?
@@ZergRadio Depends on the site, although all ad's are a hyperlink to another website, in essence, all an ad is is a fancy jpeg website link. That's putting it simple but as long as there is no way to click on it, there's no way to click on the link. Therefore, you cannot visit that link meaning the foreign site cannot deposit malware on your computer.
@@TheoreticalPie wrote "Depends on the site, although all ad's are a hyperlink to another website" Thanks for the reply. Well then I am probably safe :) I absolutely hate ads. I have like 99% no ads. When I see other people who have no ad blockers, it feel so weird looking at their web browser with ads everywhere. It is as if I am in a completely different world :)
Thanks for allowing me to become hopelessly addicted to hearing you very calmly narrate all these stories about all these interesting things. You're making the world a brighter place with each video, so don't stop!
Got a handful of those e-mails, some time ago. I found it amusing they assumed I have a webcam when I don't, and that I visit porn websites when I never have. Also, bless Adblock. Stuff like this makes me want to never go on the internet without one.
I remember when this happened to me when I was 14 trying to watch movies for free, the thing is in my country you are not fully responsible for your crimes until you are 16, so you cant go to prison if you are younger than 16, and I was watching free movies on websites freely available to public that my entire school was using to watch movies at school, so my reaction was: "Come at me cops, you cant arrest me and even if you try, you have to arrest an Entire school full of hundreds of students, good luck", after that I restarted my PC, deleted my history to "Hide evidence in case cops show up" and force updated my antivirus just in case
Any linux distro with suricata running. They cant do shit to your drives or data and you can even find out what their IP was when they attempted to connect
@@LTBL88 1. orginial comment ' I'm surprised the judge didn't FORCE him...' 2. Judges don't make rules or laws, they can only enforce existing ones. 3. Let's assume, the judge declares that as part of his release. He is to never touch a computer again. How would that work? Especially in todays world where we are surrounded by computers? Spend tax payer money constantly monitoring him? Bind him in a strait jacket? Cut his arms off so he can't ever touch a phone again. Or we can all join you in the realm of make believe and assume he won't ever go near one, because he was such a up standing citizen to begin with. You simple fuck.
@@truth8516 Listen to other episodes. Both US and UK have systems where cybercrime convicts have a phone with monitoring software and must have someone watching them do anything online.
My son got it within minutes from Roblox sites back in the day. A 14 year old getting an FBI warning while on his grandparents computer with a picture of himself from only minutes before? OMG, he was shitting bricks. Took me about 4-5 hours to research how to kill it. I don't think he played Roblox much after that until he was far more tech savvy.
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Hey Jack, Lets talk about the fake facebook profiles who would add people, then call them... Then a video overlay plays of a cladly based woman teasing, plays, and they're like ooh show me something (explicit) and when unaware victim does, the predator either records or screenshots and then threatens that person to pay them. (Threatens to send it to your family members , work, boss, friends)
This is an example of why you should be extra vigilant about who you talk to on social media. Strangers should be regarded with suspicion and, if you're a man, and suddenly a woman that is way out of your league pops up and is being all flirtatious and the like, just ask yourself, "would this happen in the real world?". Haha! Most people would see these profiles and ignore them or block them, but they must work on some people for people to keep trying it. I've seen them - no friends, nothing to suggest that they are a real person, and some photos of a woman who looks as if they might come from Eastern Europe and beyond, and is attractive. I wonder who actually gets scammed in this way? Its a hard demographic to study, given that the people who have been "got" this way wont be quick to talk about it publicly.
Zain is probably smart enough to get a new identity and start over. He was an asshole for ddosing websites just because they didn't want to scam people
I remember a virus like this when i was 14-15 or so. I don't remember if it was from a clicked ad or a pop-up ad, but it was from an ad. I don't remember what I did, but I remember it was a little tricky to unlock my computer at first. It was the first time I got to really think like the hacker and find things they missed. In the end I remember thinking that it was a pretty simple workaround that they should have anticipated.
I’m actually very interested in how digital forensics was able to get access to those supposed encrypted partitions and drives. Im assuming they just subpoena the man for the keys. I find it had to believe they be brute forced their way in.
Hey, first time viewer here. Tried to listen on my phone speaker and you were pretty quiet even at max volume compared to some other channels. Please consider either raising the level of your audio or compress it a bit my man. Cheers 🤘
i got it some years ago from downloading games it was also perfectly translated to greek with the greek police logo i got rid of it with a system rollback to last day and using safe mode to manually delete all unknown files on my pc from that day i dont know if its the right way to do it but it worked
Sorry for a potentially dumb question but I don't know much about hacking and malware, I thought that you generally don't get infected if you don't download anything? I thought that just visiting a website has no way to put any malware on your pc. How does this exploit work?
@janusz Not a dumb question at all. 😊 There are several ways that a computer can become infected with malware even if the user does not intentionally download anything from a website. Some of these methods include: 1) Drive-by downloads: In this type of attack, the user's computer becomes infected with malware simply by visiting a compromised website. The malware is automatically downloaded and installed on the user's computer, often without their knowledge. 2) Malvertising: This method involves placing malicious ads on legitimate websites. When a user clicks on the ad, they may be redirected to a site that attempts to install malware on their computer. And of course, there's the typical social and psychological engineering methods where behaviour manipulation is used to trick you to download malicious software. ( trusted source email etc)
I remember when these FBI ransom ware hacks were happening. I had some cell phone stores and they were hitting phones too. I had a lot of people come in embarrassed and I would explain it was a scam and would help them with their phones. I educated a lot of the community and helped a lot of people get their phones back. It was bad when it hit computers, but the phones were much more devastating because we run our lives on them.
To comment on your final point, those conviction’s may not follow him for long, I’m not sure how long it’ll take for them to be considered spent, but the UK is more lenient with both their sentencing (which the 18 months the us feds gave him was already pretty lenient, if he claimed to have a drug problem he get a year knocked off there, plus it’s only 85% minus time served) and how long charges impact someone. Spent/unspent deals primarily with what the sentence is iirc. For oftenses where the sentence is community service, it’s only a year past the end of the sentence, until that conviction doesn’t have an impact on you
When I was like 11 my friend called me about a virus he had on his computer. He tried downloading a movie on the bay, and his computer got a virus with CP plastered on the screen. It said if we dont pay X amount of dollars for validation code they willl post the CP on all social media accounts. We ended up smashing his computer with baseball bats and then lighting it on fire afterward.
I'm sure you know this now, but for anyone else looking, destroying the computer doesn't prevent scammers from sharing data they already have, and if your system was compromised you can start with the assumption that they have everything on it and work back from there
...Zain seems to have gotten overconfident over the years it seems. Typical mistake. Never threaten legitimate people doing the right thing with these kinds of things. They always see you in a bad light and report you to the police. They are protected and now you are hounded.
No point being talented if you choose to waste it this way There’s zero reason to empathise. This idiot lost all his money because he was greedy, the little arab got what was coming to him
So, there is where all those porn sites ads come from, recently facebook has been going crazy with those. But still they don't allow you to publish online courses.
i get the impression you did something to get your videos to show more frequently than the avg content creator. i watched bits and pieces of like 2 videos and now i get your stuff on my feed. im not mad at it whatsoever just a thought😅
They locked up my pc back in early 2000's. And I wasn't even on a porn site,I downloaded a crack for a game or for some piece of software. That was the first and the last time I got infected.
Got an email…. Of the s3x blackmail also …he was asking for 21 bitcoin 😅and said he had a recording of me but my webcam is closed … i don’t use it ..just deleted the email
I remember I was trying to download a manga online on this old android in middle school. Shit locked up with a picture of a dog on top of a girl with a countdown. I drowned the phone and threw it in the woods. Only to go back and get it after i figured out how to reset it. Still worked too😂
Meh. I really don't get this porn-based ransomware. Unless one is looking at CP or some snuff stuff, in which case they probably deserve all the hell that awaits them. But otherwise... who the fuck cares? Everyone has watched porn at some point and has enjoyed it. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
This is one of the rare times I would highly recommend a visual based podcast. Following all the laundering methods via audio was a little confusing. Something to consider
You have to be an idiot to worry about ransomware. First of all, I use Linux, so it's a 100x harder to get hacked, and I make frequent backups + I have fail-over drives. If I ever get hacked, no big deal. I shut down my computer, replace the the drive with the clean one, and pull my backups. I'm back in business in 2 minutes.
I am still watching the video. but i do watch porn, But i use GNU/LInux. And I am not worried about hackers. not to say Linux doesn't get hacked. But are Hackers trying to hack linux users that watch porn? or do they want to mainly hack Windows users. think about it.
TH-cam has a habit of forcing garbage into my feed and I by all means don't mean to sound pretentious. - I watched this video expecting someone inexperienced perhaps, basic retelling of what happened or shortcuts in the video to skip to the end faster. That tied with another video maybe. I expected a more recent child who got busted for breaking into R*, But I threw this video in a private tab just 'cuz. I enjoyed your video but noticed you repeating yourself a couple times (Reiterating the Police Virus twice for example) saying things like keep your software up to date is helpful but, perhaps keep less software to avoid exploits. I did enjoy your retelling of how the story and loved how you described the softwares breaching tactics, this not only gives a unique interesting story but gives the listener the tools to think for themselves to avoid this. I love your subtitles as well, they were automatically thrown on but made listening along and reading much easier as well. Anywho, Well made video none the less and cheers. One of the rare instances where TH-cam didn't actually recommend me garbage.
@@Lung__ "Clean it up wagie" Well make up your mind, are you pretentious? To me it seems to be the case. I actually thought you were cool but I see what happens when someone says something as simple as a common meme.
Yeah, I got an email like that a few years ago. It showed me my password, except the password was an old one that I barely used anymore. This must've leaked from some forum or something as well as I was never big into making accounts on the internet and only very few websites actually had that password. I didn't bother tracking it down, I just laughed at the email and replied to it with something mocking the "hackers". They never responded! who would've guessed
I wouldn't even bother replying; why you might ask? Because they get huge password dumps that collect over time from website leaks and then likely send an automated message to all the emails looking for one that's actually usable. If you actually respond you might actually be seen, unlike the other hundreds of thousands of *automated* emails they send out... Even if the accounts are useless there are subtle things that can be left in them that can be used to build a profile and 'escalate' what they can hunt for. Always nice just to leave that alone and avoid there being a chance of them at least doing something that allows them to be a pain in the ass later
@@cameroncooper5195 You're not wrong, but ever since I watched James Veitch's TED talk on replying to spam, I like to provoke them a bit. The email address they had wasn't even an important email account so I didn't mind testing it out on that one. But yeah, for the average user that just wants to left alone it's better to just leave it be, good explanation
@@Hazarth btw sorry there was one more detail I realized I didn't fill in; for everyone else, when I said 'even if the *accounts* are useless' I meant once they find a password tied to that one useless account, they will keep testing it around in other places (if you reuse that password with accounts tied to, say, that email in any way) until they get more information from other accounts they can use -- where from there they might be able to fish for bigger info etc. I was not referring to them finding info right away on the first account they find. So in my case I just don't know what 20 year old accounts I have still up and running with that password. In the modern age 2FA really does simplify a lot of this fortunately
I love how every hack that you are warned about these days is like... 10 years old...
It's getting harder and harder to know what to warn your parents against...
Even if you do, it can be overwhelming. I wouldn't even blame people if they simply gave up on this and stopped using computers.
The fact is, hackers come out with new ones frequently. In the time someone takes to notice a hack then destroy it, the hacker will have developed a new one. Its never ending struggle.
1. Don't click on anything flashing.
2. Don't click on anything selling you anything.
3. Don't click on anything that makes your address change more than twice.
@@asandax6 Clicking on things in web browsers isnt even too bad anymore , browser exploits ar very very expensive nowanays, im talking half a million to a million. just dont run untrusted files and you should be good
@@bubzuru The reason I wrote that is because there are some websites that can use your device resources to do stuff you don't want them to do. Like some websites can mine crypto in your machine using only javascript. Some mobile websites here in africa do WASP hacks by signing you up to mobile services that will take your airtime little by little. I don't know why mobile operators haven't stopped these types of services. They can even extract your cellphone number from the browser and start sending spam sms ads.
That wasn't spaghetti. You might want to wash your hands.
Poke a hole in the popcorn bag
No it was meatballs.
Milk
If there’s blood in the mix you have found your favorite 🌟
@@smellymala3103 hell nah
The fact that I got the fbi virus on my computer when I was in highschool trying to download music from a site 😂 my mom thought I was watching porn it was dreadful but it made me jump back into IT 😭 7 years later and I’m glad it happened best career of my life
web pop ups arent viruses.
@@DimeDCSGO he got the ransomware
That's an advertisement I think
This is hilarious. I was in 9th grade and my friends and I had gotten hands on some cracked windows 7. I put it on my other friends laptop and he had contracted the same FBI ransomware 😂
Lol, same thing here. I was never on a porn site,I downloaded a crack either for a game or some software from pirate bay or some peer 2 peer service.
honestly best way to protect yourself from "we recorded you 'having fun' through your webcam" is to not have webcam connected or have it covered/turned off, then there is not even a shadow of a doubt whether its a problem or not
yep, just put a piece of a thick tape on a webcam of any device that you use to “have fun” while you’re having fun, and you’re hustle-free
insane
@@nailozaz7596 naah, just life in its current form
Or just be like me and have no shame
Send that shit to my mom, she's already wiped my ass hundreds of times and gives less than a fuck than I do
Send that shit to my coworkers, so they can find out I get laid more than them with a smaller dick 🤣
Send it to my bosses, we'd both get a laugh! And I dont work in a field that would be offended by someone else blackmailing me, if anything one of them will probably help me find whoever's behind it and come with me for a visit
Shit, the moment I find out there's someone taking over my webcam, Im installing a wireless cam in my toilet that'l only be on when I shit
"You're in my house, bitch" will predate every degeneratr thing I force the hacker to watch, Ill be too much of a nuisance to bother
You should glue a tiny picture of Kanye over the lens
This is by far my favorite channel! Thanks for sharing these great stories in fun and interesting ways.
careful, you might be spammed with CP
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Im a new custie! Luv the channel! I got hit with this too looking at my porhubie!
i hope u know about the podcast
Hackers "Hahaha, we got you. Send us a money or we'll tell everyone you love about your porn habits"
Me "Go ahead, cause what they think I watch is far worse then what I actually watch. You'd be doing me a favor."
@k Adults don't need imaginary friends.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 *tips fedora*
@@williamlawson7852 Put the chicken tendies down and go touch grass.
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@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 tips fedora
I'm both amused and impressed by your spaghetti bowl analogy. This is the level of clarity and relatability I aspire to have in my own explanations.
I also thought it was a pretty good analogy.
This happened to my sister working in the mid east on Monday… she was scared .. since she’s in an Arab country…working there… glad you covered it now I can share this with her… though she wasn’t watching porn … she was looking for free movies
Its just as well she wasn't watching porn! Some of these countries in the Middle East are known for their horrible, misogynistic treatment of women, in society in general and within the law too. Can't imagine what kind of punishment a woman would receive for a "crime" such as this in any of these states. A man would have a pretty harsh punishment, but it would be significantly worse for a woman.
Hope your sister is okay and got out of the situation with as little difficulty as possible.
@@the_local_bigamist she’s okay though I warned her to never go out looking for these free movies again
Watchu talking abt, a man breaking a common laws in the US can mean death in Arab countries💀
@Watcher guessing you meant PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption?
@Watcher awesome, thanks for the tip!
I got hit with ransomware around 2012 and got lucky. Pulling the laptop battery out and turning the computer back on seemed to do the trick. I also had some random number try to extort me, saying they filmed me having some personal fun (I keep tape over my front facing cameras). Knowing it was a bluff, I sent a real photo of my junk along with the caption, "do what you want, here's one more you can shove up your..." you get the idea lol He cursed me out in broken English and nothing happened! Now, I send a junk pic to every scammer I can, it's a bit of a hobby at this point. I figure if I can waste an hour of their time only for them to get nothing but an insulting pic, that's time they couldn't spend on someone who'd have possibly fallen for their scam.
lmao you've got some courage
@@marvnch Ending blackmail scams one pecker at a time. They waste an hour and I get to show my weiner to people across the globe, win win
Took his gun and pointed it right back at him
What a power move
My stepmother got hit with ransomware. I simply booted the laptop in safe mode, went through and ran an antivirus on administrator, confirmed everything was ok, and then talked to her to try and figure out where the bloody hell it came from and what she had clicked on before it happened. In this case I think it was a pretty crude piece of ransomware to be defeated so easily, but it still goes to demonstrate how wide ranging this stuff is.
Bro what kind of ransomware doesnt encrypt the drive. Sounds more like a joke than anything 😂
@@sigmamale4147 That's what I'm thinking. It was just a stupid virus that covered up the screen when you tried to boot it. Not really ransomware for anyone with a lick of knowledge, but for someone older like my stepmother it was enough to freak her out because she had no idea what to do.
@GH0STST4RSCR34M I had one of those when I was around 8-9 yrs old , on my family's first pc within about 4-5 months of buying it. Didn't know anything back then and I was terrified when that happened.
I flooded a Canadian porn IP as a 14 year old in 1996 taking them offline. They wanted to sue. When they found out I was 14 and cried on the phone they let me off with writing them an apology. My mum was furious. 😳
💀
i flooded my sister
Would have been cool if you took down a few pedo sites too. 👏
I responded to the email I got that they were going to release a pic of me beating it. I said thank you, because everyplace else was going to charge me to do that, so I appreciate the free advertisement.
I stay up late on Thursdays and look forward to these videos. I discovered you a few months back. Thank you for these awesome stories! You are a great story teller!
There are more episodes on Spotify then are here. I usually listen on there. This episode was already up.
This is why I use Linux. Good luck locking down my laptop.
In the very early days of the web I was browsing and suddenly across my browser text appeared "now you know why you should lock down your browser" and my PC crashed.
The lesson was learnt.
I am wondering, if one used adblocker (Ublock Origin) and noscript addons would that not help prevent this sort of thing?
One cannot click on an ad if there are not ads been displayed on screen, or ?
@@ZergRadio Depends on the site, although all ad's are a hyperlink to another website, in essence, all an ad is is a fancy jpeg website link. That's putting it simple but as long as there is no way to click on it, there's no way to click on the link. Therefore, you cannot visit that link meaning the foreign site cannot deposit malware on your computer.
@@TheoreticalPie wrote "Depends on the site, although all ad's are a hyperlink to another website"
Thanks for the reply. Well then I am probably safe :)
I absolutely hate ads. I have like 99% no ads.
When I see other people who have no ad blockers, it feel so weird looking at their web browser with ads everywhere. It is as if I am in a completely different world :)
I'm not gonna lie, I got hit with that fake FBI lock screen virus when I was a kid
I have been looking for a channel like yours for months and oh boy I managed to find the perfect channel! Your contents are awesome, keep it up!!
Thanks for allowing me to become hopelessly addicted to hearing you very calmly narrate all these stories about all these interesting things. You're making the world a brighter place with each video, so don't stop!
Got a handful of those e-mails, some time ago. I found it amusing they assumed I have a webcam when I don't, and that I visit porn websites when I never have. Also, bless Adblock. Stuff like this makes me want to never go on the internet without one.
Yeah when I first got one of those webcam emails. I was afraid and shortly after I didn't care if people watched me fondle myself.
I remember when this happened to me when I was 14 trying to watch movies for free, the thing is in my country you are not fully responsible for your crimes until you are 16, so you cant go to prison if you are younger than 16, and I was watching free movies on websites freely available to public that my entire school was using to watch movies at school, so my reaction was: "Come at me cops, you cant arrest me and even if you try, you have to arrest an Entire school full of hundreds of students, good luck", after that I restarted my PC, deleted my history to "Hide evidence in case cops show up" and force updated my antivirus just in case
Seems like we all need to start use virtual machines for everything
Any linux distro with suricata running. They cant do shit to your drives or data and you can even find out what their IP was when they attempted to connect
they are slow as shit
Godbless hypervisors lol
@@marcusmeaney I was thinking of test driving kali
The trick to counter this is to not have shame
Im surprised the judge didn't force him to never go near a computer ever again
How would one enforce that genius?
@@truth8516 Not the point genius, you can still enact a rule or law even if it's difficult to enforce
@@LTBL88
1. orginial comment ' I'm surprised the judge didn't FORCE him...'
2. Judges don't make rules or laws, they can only enforce existing ones.
3. Let's assume, the judge declares that as part of his release. He is to never touch a computer again. How would that work? Especially in todays world where we are surrounded by computers?
Spend tax payer money constantly monitoring him? Bind him in a strait jacket? Cut his arms off so he can't ever touch a phone again.
Or we can all join you in the realm of make believe and assume he won't ever go near one, because he was such a up standing citizen to begin with.
You simple fuck.
@@truth8516 Listen to other episodes. Both US and UK have systems where cybercrime convicts have a phone with monitoring software and must have someone watching them do anything online.
My son got it within minutes from Roblox sites back in the day. A 14 year old getting an FBI warning while on his grandparents computer with a picture of himself from only minutes before? OMG, he was shitting bricks. Took me about 4-5 hours to research how to kill it.
I don't think he played Roblox much after that until he was far more tech savvy.
Just the best and only podcast i hear 6 days straight
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So, wait. This guy did enough money laundering to sorta-protect his associates, but not enough to protect himself. That's a hell of an oversight.
I had that happen to me when I was a child. Scary and annoying. All I did was do a hard reset and it fixed the problem
How can Angler find out about your software versions? It's running on your browser, isn't it supposed to be a sandbox?
How do the browser know you have version x of a software, what is your resolution, so the content vizualize properly?
The browsers send all that
Browsers are spyware
Hey Jack,
Lets talk about the fake facebook profiles who would add people, then call them...
Then a video overlay plays of a cladly based woman teasing, plays, and they're like ooh show me something (explicit) and when unaware victim does, the predator either records or screenshots and then threatens that person to pay them. (Threatens to send it to your family members , work, boss, friends)
Lmao, homie you got played
This is an example of why you should be extra vigilant about who you talk to on social media. Strangers should be regarded with suspicion and, if you're a man, and suddenly a woman that is way out of your league pops up and is being all flirtatious and the like, just ask yourself, "would this happen in the real world?". Haha!
Most people would see these profiles and ignore them or block them, but they must work on some people for people to keep trying it. I've seen them - no friends, nothing to suggest that they are a real person, and some photos of a woman who looks as if they might come from Eastern Europe and beyond, and is attractive.
I wonder who actually gets scammed in this way? Its a hard demographic to study, given that the people who have been "got" this way wont be quick to talk about it publicly.
Only an idiot would fall for this
@Cayenne Captain that's what I thought... until I met a 7 feet tall, married lesbian who made 600k a year
Stop cooming problem solved
Zain is probably smart enough to get a new identity and start over. He was an asshole for ddosing websites just because they didn't want to scam people
I remember a virus like this when i was 14-15 or so. I don't remember if it was from a clicked ad or a pop-up ad, but it was from an ad. I don't remember what I did, but I remember it was a little tricky to unlock my computer at first. It was the first time I got to really think like the hacker and find things they missed. In the end I remember thinking that it was a pretty simple workaround that they should have anticipated.
I've got a background in CompSci and let me tell you, you did a great job explaining the technical details in a really accessible way. Great stuff!
I’m actually very interested in how digital forensics was able to get access to those supposed encrypted partitions and drives. Im assuming they just subpoena the man for the keys. I find it had to believe they be brute forced their way in.
They usually hit you with a keylogger. Rules for thee but not for me.
Hey, first time viewer here. Tried to listen on my phone speaker and you were pretty quiet even at max volume compared to some other channels. Please consider either raising the level of your audio or compress it a bit my man. Cheers 🤘
i got it some years ago from downloading games it was also perfectly translated to greek with the greek police logo i got rid of it with a system rollback to last day and using safe mode to manually delete all unknown files on my pc from that day i dont know if its the right way to do it but it worked
Super excited for the doingfedtime episode guys can’t wait
Me too
Sorry for a potentially dumb question but I don't know much about hacking and malware, I thought that you generally don't get infected if you don't download anything? I thought that just visiting a website has no way to put any malware on your pc. How does this exploit work?
Plenty of malware uses scripts on a site to see what you're running, connect back to their command and control servers, which sends the right exploit
@janusz
Not a dumb question at all. 😊
There are several ways that a computer can become infected with malware even if the user does not intentionally download anything from a website. Some of these methods include:
1) Drive-by downloads: In this type of attack, the user's computer becomes infected with malware simply by visiting a compromised website. The malware is automatically downloaded and installed on the user's computer, often without their knowledge.
2) Malvertising: This method involves placing malicious ads on legitimate websites. When a user clicks on the ad, they may be redirected to a site that attempts to install malware on their computer.
And of course, there's the typical social and psychological engineering methods where behaviour manipulation is used to trick you to download malicious software. ( trusted source email etc)
Bro these stories are so good 👍🏽 subscribed
Man do I hate hackers. Ways of screwing people over are numerous and easily archived.
Try defence for a change and find out who's got the real skills.
thanks for the video jack
Now that Zain is known to be behind this notorious hack, you gotta think there are a few people that got stung that are looking for revenge.
I remember when these FBI ransom ware hacks were happening. I had some cell phone stores and they were hitting phones too. I had a lot of people come in embarrassed and I would explain it was a scam and would help them with their phones. I educated a lot of the community and helped a lot of people get their phones back. It was bad when it hit computers, but the phones were much more devastating because we run our lives on them.
this is such good quality content more people should know about this channel
To comment on your final point, those conviction’s may not follow him for long, I’m not sure how long it’ll take for them to be considered spent, but the UK is more lenient with both their sentencing (which the 18 months the us feds gave him was already pretty lenient, if he claimed to have a drug problem he get a year knocked off there, plus it’s only 85% minus time served) and how long charges impact someone. Spent/unspent deals primarily with what the sentence is iirc. For oftenses where the sentence is community service, it’s only a year past the end of the sentence, until that conviction doesn’t have an impact on you
I wish I have this knowledge on computers ngl, I wouldnt use it but just having the ability fo be able to do this stuff would be kinda cool imo
New to this channel , love
Great Content Bro 👌 👏 👍
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Morgan Freeman voice: There were no hot singles in his area.
I got hit with this very thing about 7 years ago. I was able to remove it within a day, but this scared the absolute crap out of me
Another great one Jack, thanks bro!
When I was like 11 my friend called me about a virus he had on his computer. He tried downloading a movie on the bay, and his computer got a virus with CP plastered on the screen. It said if we dont pay X amount of dollars for validation code they willl post the CP on all social media accounts. We ended up smashing his computer with baseball bats and then lighting it on fire afterward.
I'm sure you know this now, but for anyone else looking, destroying the computer doesn't prevent scammers from sharing data they already have, and if your system was compromised you can start with the assumption that they have everything on it and work back from there
@@LabGecko Oh yes absolutely, retrospectively I find it extremely comedic that we thought that was a viable solution to the problem.
With a terrible name like Zain he was bound to be a ciminal
What?
What a stupid ignorant thing to say
Something like that happened but on my phone. But all I did to get rid of it was to boot my phone into safe mode and deleted the app.
Love the way you pronounce Renault, lol.
Well he was stupid. 1.st time he had a police at his door, he should destroy his hard drive and replace it with a new one.
I love this podcast! :D
...Zain seems to have gotten overconfident over the years it seems. Typical mistake.
Never threaten legitimate people doing the right thing with these kinds of things. They always see you in a bad light and report you to the police. They are protected and now you are hounded.
I dont think he's gonna have a hard time finding a job, dudes good at hacking
All the other money laundering, blackmail, etc. charges are gonna hurt though. Hacking? Useful. Mentality to screw people over with it? Not so useful.
Amazing video, thanks! You butchered "Málaga"'s pronunciation and, while not important at all, it made me chuckle. There's your thumbs up
This was a good one
It's difficult not to empathize with Zane.
Millions of easy dollars is a tempting bait.
No point being talented if you choose to waste it this way
There’s zero reason to empathise. This idiot lost all his money because he was greedy, the little arab got what was coming to him
I guess even if you know it’s not law enforcement, there’s nothing you can do to get your computer back other than to pay the ransom.
If everyone "used their skills for good", there'd be no need for cyber security teams. But, such is not the way of the world.
There was an episode on the mexican telenovela 'La Rosa de Guadalupe' that was about exactly this
Awesome story. Love from India
So, there is where all those porn sites ads come from, recently facebook has been going crazy with those. But still they don't allow you to publish online courses.
I would have to use Hitman Pro to get rid of those viruses or reinstall Windows it was brutal for my clients
wrong all you have to is re install the pc software and reboot your pc lmao check the lines coding of videos before pushing play by pushin ctrl U
i get the impression you did something to get your videos to show more frequently than the avg content creator. i watched bits and pieces of like 2 videos and now i get your stuff on my feed. im not mad at it whatsoever just a thought😅
16K a month to do computer work doesn’t sound bad at all BUT it’s really chump change considering he only made 900K out of the 5 million.
🤣😂 he almost got me on this one! But then I went in and got it off myself. But gotta hand it to ya 👏
They locked up my pc back in early 2000's. And I wasn't even on a porn site,I downloaded a crack for a game or for some piece of software. That was the first and the last time I got infected.
Love your work
My Darknet stickers arrived in Australia looking great on the back of my laptop
Got an email…. Of the s3x blackmail also …he was asking for 21 bitcoin 😅and said he had a recording of me but my webcam is closed … i don’t use it ..just deleted the email
I remember I was trying to download a manga online on this old android in middle school. Shit locked up with a picture of a dog on top of a girl with a countdown. I drowned the phone and threw it in the woods. Only to go back and get it after i figured out how to reset it. Still worked too😂
Lmao I think I was hit by this once and I was like send me the pics and let me know next time and I’ll give you a show lmao
I got that virus, just did a system restore.
Meh. I really don't get this porn-based ransomware.
Unless one is looking at CP or some snuff stuff, in which case they probably deserve all the hell that awaits them.
But otherwise... who the fuck cares? Everyone has watched porn at some point and has enjoyed it.
Nothing to be embarrassed about.
Uhh did you watch the video?
the jail sentences for such crimes were a joke
Love your videos find my self going to your channel most nights before bed keep up the good vibes👍🤺🕺👾🍲
So if life is like a box of chocolates, then ransomware is like a bowl of spaghetti.
This is one of the rare times I would highly recommend a visual based podcast. Following all the laundering methods via audio was a little confusing. Something to consider
Always knew their was someone fishy about those ads
HoLaa Thank you for this episode!.
Wouldn't it have been easier if he had taken 70% off the cards and sent the code with the remaining 30% to the russians?
Doubt they have the same cards in Russia
When the alphabet boys infect your computert they unfortunately dont tell you lol
I can't pay. I would just cry and format my PC and move on.
safe mode
You have to be an idiot to worry about ransomware. First of all, I use Linux, so it's a 100x harder to get hacked, and I make frequent backups + I have fail-over drives. If I ever get hacked, no big deal. I shut down my computer, replace the the drive with the clean one, and pull my backups. I'm back in business in 2 minutes.
good video keep up boss
I did a quick calculation assuming 16k/month he is getting 192k yearly which is kinda insane
My uni requires me to have outdated software😂
My brother was downloading shit off of TH-cam which was posted by Russians and he got ransomware on my moms fiancés PC.
Dude who TF fell for this?!? The FBI is trying to extort me out of 200$ for whacking my bag? GTFOH 😂
Oh crud i just realized my previous stepdad fell for this!... I was the tech whiz in the family so I just wiped his laptop and restored a backup
I am still watching the video. but i do watch porn, But i use GNU/LInux. And I am not worried about hackers. not to say Linux doesn't get hacked. But are Hackers trying to hack linux users that watch porn? or do they want to mainly hack Windows users. think about it.
AYYE BBY ITS THE TIME OF THE WEEK!
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2:10 So he's an adult, not a teen, or a "kid". Lol
TH-cam has a habit of forcing garbage into my feed and I by all means don't mean to sound pretentious.
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I watched this video expecting someone inexperienced perhaps, basic retelling of what happened or shortcuts in the video to skip to the end faster. That tied with another video maybe. I expected a more recent child who got busted for breaking into R*, But I threw this video in a private tab just 'cuz.
I enjoyed your video but noticed you repeating yourself a couple times (Reiterating the Police Virus twice for example) saying things like keep your software up to date is helpful but, perhaps keep less software to avoid exploits. I did enjoy your retelling of how the story and loved how you described the softwares breaching tactics, this not only gives a unique interesting story but gives the listener the tools to think for themselves to avoid this.
I love your subtitles as well, they were automatically thrown on but made listening along and reading much easier as well. Anywho, Well made video none the less and cheers. One of the rare instances where TH-cam didn't actually recommend me garbage.
Sir this is a wendys
@@default178 Clean it up wagie
@@Lung__ "Clean it up wagie" Well make up your mind, are you pretentious? To me it seems to be the case. I actually thought you were cool but I see what happens when someone says something as simple as a common meme.
Yayyyyy 2am posts!!!!!!
Yeah, I got an email like that a few years ago. It showed me my password, except the password was an old one that I barely used anymore. This must've leaked from some forum or something as well as I was never big into making accounts on the internet and only very few websites actually had that password. I didn't bother tracking it down, I just laughed at the email and replied to it with something mocking the "hackers". They never responded! who would've guessed
I wouldn't even bother replying; why you might ask? Because they get huge password dumps that collect over time from website leaks and then likely send an automated message to all the emails looking for one that's actually usable. If you actually respond you might actually be seen, unlike the other hundreds of thousands of *automated* emails they send out...
Even if the accounts are useless there are subtle things that can be left in them that can be used to build a profile and 'escalate' what they can hunt for. Always nice just to leave that alone and avoid there being a chance of them at least doing something that allows them to be a pain in the ass later
@@cameroncooper5195 You're not wrong, but ever since I watched James Veitch's TED talk on replying to spam, I like to provoke them a bit. The email address they had wasn't even an important email account so I didn't mind testing it out on that one.
But yeah, for the average user that just wants to left alone it's better to just leave it be, good explanation
@@Hazarth btw sorry there was one more detail I realized I didn't fill in; for everyone else, when I said 'even if the *accounts* are useless' I meant once they find a password tied to that one useless account, they will keep testing it around in other places (if you reuse that password with accounts tied to, say, that email in any way) until they get more information from other accounts they can use -- where from there they might be able to fish for bigger info etc. I was not referring to them finding info right away on the first account they find.
So in my case I just don't know what 20 year old accounts I have still up and running with that password. In the modern age 2FA really does simplify a lot of this fortunately