Catch Me If You Can
Twenty-two years ago the Secret Service took down ShadowCrew, the carding forum every forum since has copied. One of the men running it was working for them.
// threat intel · ai agents · the stuff that breaks
Threat intelligence, AI agents, and the stuff that breaks when you mix them. Ten years of watching the same fight, written down as I go.
// latest dispatch
Twenty-two years ago the Secret Service took down ShadowCrew, the carding forum every forum since has copied. One of the men running it was working for them.
Thirteen years ago the operator of the most 'anonymous' market on the internet was arrested in a public library with his laptop open. He found out what the word actually means.
Timewarp #1: Yahoo at ten, and the dump that got almost everything wrong. The dark web listing that forced Yahoo's hand was wrong about almost everything, and that is why it worked.
// about
I lead a threat intelligence research team of nine. I spend my time watching how threat actors actually operate, and building agents that help me do it.
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