About this episode
This episode tells the story of Bayrob, a sophisticated cybercrime operation originating from a fake eBay car listing.
It started with a fake car listing on eBay. What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Millions of dollars siphoned from victims who had no idea. This is the story of Bayrob and the three men from Romania who were behind it. And the long, strange road that led American investigators to their door. Sponsors Support for this show comes from ThreatLocker® . ThreatLocker® is a Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform that strengthens your infrastructure from the ground up. With ThreatLocker® Allowlisting and Ringfencing™, you gain a more secure approach to blocking exploits of known and unknown vulnerabilities. ThreatLocker® provides Zero Trust control at the kernel level that enables you to allow everything you need and block everything else, including ransomware! Learn more at www.threatlocker.com . This show is sponsored by Meter , the company building networks from the ground up. Meter delivers a complete networking stack - wired, wireless, and cellular - in one…
People in this episode
Host: Jack Rhysider
Topics covered
- cybercrime
- malware
- scams
- cryptocurrency
- investigation
Keywords
- Bayrob
- cybercrime
- malware
- FBI
- Romania
- cryptocurrency
- scam
Sponsors
ThreatLocker, Meter, Maze
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: FBI
Places: Romania
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