[ryanlol]

I always assumed the two to be different people. The log shows the two of them talking at the same time, and I remember the two of them having very different attitudes in general.

I know TouchMe is malwaretech but would be inclined to assume that BetaMonkey isn't.

TouchMe was still a malware developer though, and apparently used to run voidptr before handing it over to BetaMonkey.

[christina_b]

I was pretty sure TouchMe was BetaMonkey's new nick, I don't think it was Ntoskrnl (MalwareTech). From what I've heard TouchMe continued support of his drone's users until he dissapeared without a trace. This was so long ago and my memory isn't amazing.

[ryanlol]

TouchMe is MalwareTech, 0 doubt https://twitter.com/touchmymalware

If BetaMonkey==TouchMe then they were trying really hard to conceal that.

Here's a hackforums thread mentioning some other malware TouchMe was distributing though https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3786935

[fweespeech]

> TouchMe is MalwareTech, 0 doubt https://twitter.com/touchmymalware

If I was a bad man in the security profession who was certain he was anonymous, I'd point to someone else who was a security professional on twitter when I vanished too.

It just y'know, wouldn't have been me.

[blaquee]

That tweet was in 2013 however.

[fweespeech]

If you tweet and stop using an account that is what happens and that was a shady group of people in 2013.

[ryanlol]

pfft.

I used to talk to this guy on a malware dev IRC on a daily basis, he started a blog "TouchMyMalware" which eventually evolved into Malwaretech.

This is all easily verifiable with google and archive.org.

And lol, apparently some twitter user dug up logs of him offering to sell me a rootkit for $20k https://twitter.com/jeremiahg/status/893207272154734592