Why link an irrelevant article from 2005 about IR?
The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.
He hacked rockstar at a hotel, where he was left with no computers or phones, only to find that the TV had a chromecast, which he used to buy a phone and a keyboard (presumably by selling his monero).
You sure are making a lot of assumptions here and have some very interesting takes. Can you tell me how this would be done without a way to modify the Chromecast?
you know that’s a really great point. I had assumed they would make sure he didn’t have a credit card or monitor it etc but you can buy whatever amount of VPS or dedi storage you want with crypto. I’m sure he had knowledge of DNS exfil paid hotspot bypass etc to get past any Wi-Fi blocks, or just crack the password for any nearby hotel occupant hotspots if he wasn’t allowed internet access per his detainment.
My thought was he probably gave the initial foothold info to other lapsus members and they took it from there but you’re right he absolutely could have done at all himself.
you know that’s a really great point. I had assumed they would make sure he didn’t have a credit card or monitor it etc but you can buy whatever amount of VPS or dedi storage you want with crypto. I’m sure he had knowledge of DNS exfiltration etc to get past any Wi-Fi blocks, or just crack the password for any nearby hotspots if he wasn’t allowed internet access per his detainment.
My thought was he probably gave the initial foothold info to other lapsus members and they took it from there but you’re right he absolutely could have.
The full source with assets included is what was leaked, that was my point. It’s 1TB. The leaker also made 2 other versions for people who don’t want to download 1TB since a lot of people don’t have that much spare space lying around for a copy of a games source.
I’m confused. This kid was arrested for hacking Rockstar and downloading and sharing 90 video clips of the unreleased GTA6, but this source code leak is GTA5, and the full leak is 1TB in size. He was in police custody in a hotel during the time of his 90 clip GTA6 hack. That’s a lot of space for a smartphone and fire stick.
There are 3 leaks in circulation:
3.3 gigs, src only
17 gigs, src + partial assets
1 TB, src + full assets
How are we certain this kid was behind the GTA5 source leak, because these sources don’t claim that. It’s possible that he passed the info on to Lapsu$ members but unless you have another source, this kid wasn’t the leaker of the GTA5 leak.
Have you really never heard of malware from JavaScript? Buffer overflows and sandbox escapes are almost all JavaScript, still, hasn’t changed in the last decade. Sometimes it’s a random font parser library or something, but almost always it’s JavaScript. And now that browsers are auto-updating and they have fully staffed security teams behind them that get word of a vulnerability being secretly exploited before the general public, most people don’t get hit just because they browsed to a random website. But it’s still possible, and especially likely that a shady torrent site could be hosting malware or get ““hacked””.
Unless he cracked it himself, he wouldn’t know for a long time if the cracks were malicious or not. When I found an uploader that had so much working software even the smaller more obscure and niche stuff, I tried to stay with him…Eventually I did malware analysis (hobby at the time) and found out he was binding his password manager stealer to the main program or some necessary .dll that was called my the main program.
That was on IPTorrents private tracker, and he was incredibly highly regarded.
I cum in my pants thinking about the number of different accounts he stole over all those years. I was able to access a similar dumb via ftp and hardcore username and password in the downloader, but that uploader has his bound file so crazy hidden.
The rest was high me writing a story about what your coworker could have been doing, Office Space style.