It's so incredibly depressing seeing young people, such as Kai West a/k/a IntelBroker, throw away their lives.

Let's think about it for a second.

If Mr. West is found guilty (which he probably will), he is facing 20 years (or more) in federal prison.

Think about how insanely long 20 years is. When Mr. West is released from prison he will be about 45 years old. He will have spent a good portion of his adult life in a prison cell.

I myself personally will be well into my 50s. My son will be in his 20s.

Many of you, who I know interacted with Mr. West, will be well into your 30s, or 40s. Many of you will have settled down and be married with children.

Celebrities we know right now will become irrelevant or die. Many current politicians will succumb to old age and die. If Mr. West has any beloved pets they will be dead.

Assuming Mr. West's parents are in their 40s right now, when he is released they'll be considered senior citizens. Mr. West will spend every Christmas, New Year's, Birthday, and even funerals, behind bars thousands of miles away from his friends and family.

Think of how many Threat Groups and Threat Actors appeared 20 years ago. How many do you remember? How many of you remember zf0? Presumably very few.

In 20 years Breached and Raid will likely be a distant memory that will be brought up on occasion or when discussing the history of cybercrime. IntelBroker may or may not be discussed. Regardless, as life carries on he will be locked in a cell.

That sucks so much

There is this weird idea that once a cyber criminal is convicted they immediately work for law enforcement.

I know this may be hard for some of you to hear, but the United States government does possess talented individuals and they do not need to hire and/or work with a convicted criminal to achieve their objectives.

More often than not, if the person is apprehended and it is not public knowledge, the person will become their puppet. A puppet is not an employee. You do not want to be a puppet for the United States government.

hE wAs iN rAnSomWaRe lOl hEs GnnA wOrK aT tHe CiA

Bro, the ransomware dorks fucking buy stolen credentials from Redline logs. Then they log in, make a half assed attempt to get to the domain controller, and push a payload. Even more "sophisticated" groups rely heavily on social engineering. You think the United States government, or any of their allies, can't buy Redline logs or social engineer people?

The fucking CIA spied on Muslims by creating a popular and free Islamic Prayer App on the Google Play store. They don't need some dorks making fucking phone calls for access to shit. Like, they've got a budget the size of other countries total GDP, you don't think they can just fork out some insane amount of cash for schizo exploits or malware?

Look at what Snowden leaked and then go look at the shitty ass malware you see from Threat Groups. Compare them. That shit from Snowden is old now too, you think they just randomly stopped doing shit?

Whatever man, I'm gonna go look at cat pictures

This is a totally normal way for a person to start a conversation

Something very interesting happened.

An anonymous individual contacted vx-underground today regarding Kai West a/k/a IntelBroker.

This person told us that they attended the same university as him.

He informed us that Mr. West was apprehended previously in 2018 operating under the moniker "PartialDuplex" and was in a group who called themselves "Apophis Squad".

The National Crime Agency of the United Kingdom actually features a 17 year old Mr. West for his previous crimes of swatting and bomb threat hoaxes.

New lore update on IntelBroker a/k/a Kai West

- Did swatting and bomb threats as a teenager
- Was raided by NCA UK
- NCA enrolls Mr. West in a cybersecurity trainee program (steer him in positive direction)
- Less than 2 years later he returns to cyber-crime

It's absurd that the NCA UK very seriously tried to steer a young Mr. West in a positive direction. They formally enrolled him as an official trainee, which makes his resume look good. They cleaned up his record. He was attending a university.

Despite his crimes, the United Kingdom government genuinely tried to steer him on a positive path and give him a bright feature.

He took that opportunity and threw it in the trash.

How he is being extradited to the United States and he will rot in a cell for 20 years.

What the fuck is this dude thinking?

A long time ago the administrator of Simland, a chatroom dedicated to the discussion of sim swapping (probably), did me a massive solid. I told him, "Thank you, I appreciate it. If you ever need anything let me know.".

Well, he is invoking his favor request. His chatroom was banned, or suspended, or something, from Telegram and he is requesting I notify the general public it has returned.

You can do so here: @joinsimlandbot

Crazy as hell seeing Mexican Drug Cartels compromise an FBI informant cell phone to extract geolocation and cell phone call records then compromise a series of security cameras all across Mexico to track and monitor FBI agents and informants to do highly targeted assassinations

If the cartels unironically start employing nerds, it's all over. Imagine they employ people to develop ransomware or something lmfao

How did the Mexican Drug Cartels get access to Israeli-tech firm NSO Group Pegasus Spyware

It's a shame malware research papers from antivirus vendors aren't more popular. But, it's partially their fault when they release a research paper on how a malware family has transitioned from using 1 TTP to a slightly different TTP and it's 15,000 words and 200 Ida pictures

The whole paper could have been 200 words or less. Vendors, you gotta spice it up a bit. Throw in some cat pictures or something, I don't know

There's a guy on Xitter who claims to be the highest IQ person in the world and he is, quite possibly, the best scammer and/or con artist I have ever seen. His scamming is so impressive he may very well actually possess the 260+- IQ he claims to have

Basically this dude from South Korea spun up a bunch of websites, claims to have all these achievements, and places himself at the very top of these phony accomplishments. Everything he's created is littered with plausible deniability or is flat out wrong, but this falsehood plays into this con (see below).

All of his posts require verification. The only way to make revenue on Xitter is from verified accounts. Hence, when he makes bold, or intentionally controversial or inflammatory claims, even trying to combat him and/or correct him feeds him money.

Despite being from South Korea, he is deeply focused on United States politics (a place he doesn't live), and he weaponizes the phony accomplishment of having the "Worlds Highest IQ" to make claims have Jesus, Donald Trump, or other government institutions, which immediately anger people and draw in both praise, criticism, and fighting in the comment section (which means more money).

It's an absolutely brilliant move. He just makes up a bunch of shit websites and achievements, says shit that'll piss a bunch of people off, then makes a bunch of money from it. 10/10 brilliant con.

This guy probably made a cool $10,000 from these posts because it's only from verified people.

Bonus points that Redditors are losing their minds. This guy truly is God's best grifter

Last year we donated several thousand dollars to animal shelters all across the United States.

Today one of those animal shelters invited me to a ballroom dance event with music, open bar, some other fancy stuff

If any of you live near Hattiesburg, Mississippi and would like dance for animals, or get drunk for animals, or something, let me know and you can go on my behalf

How tf did the FBI / NSA get a picture of North Korean IT workers working

The magical SeamusHughes
found newly unsealed court documents that have this lmfao

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.286340/gov.uscourts.mad.286340.1.0.pdf