CHAPTER 16Searching Social Media
This chapter focuses on tools and techniques that will help in your discovery of a target's alternate aliases and social media profiles. We will look at different ways to search and find names, aliases, and phone numbers in order to eventually build a threat actor tracking matrix in Chapter 17.
Several examples in this chapter will focus on Nathan Wyatt, who is currently fighting U.S. extradition for crimes associated with The Dark Overlord.
My official position on Wyatt is that I believe he used the alias Arnie, and that the group used him as their patsy. This theory is supported by the following conversation I had with Columbine (who I believe to be a close associate of NSA@rows.io).
Columbine: |
Yeah I dont know where the real Revolt is now but idc tbh |
Columbine: |
We never spoke that much anyway |
Columbine: |
A lot of the other n****** gone too |
Columbine: |
Like NSA@rows.io |
Columbine: |
They formed thedarkoverload |
Columbine: |
that ransoming group |
SoundCard: |
yeah i know about them well |
Columbine: |
I did hear that Arnie was getting mad at NSA though |
SoundCard: |
i will say that they did a good job with marketing |
Columbine: |
So internal tension between the group |
Columbine: |
Yeah |
Columbine: |
They were really good with that |
SoundCard: |
The drama is funny. |
SoundCard: |
But ok, I'll bite. why? |
Columbine: |
NSA barely did s*** for TDO I heard |
Columbine: |
and still he got the money |
Columbine: |
so Arnie (who did most of the work) got mad |
Columbine: |
Thats ... |
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