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by christina_b 3239 days ago
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.
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ryanlol 3239 days ago
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

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fweespeech 3239 days ago
> 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.

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blaquee 3239 days ago
That tweet was in 2013 however.
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fweespeech 3239 days ago
If you tweet and stop using an account that is what happens and that was a shady group of people in 2013.
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ryanlol 3239 days ago
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

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fweespeech 3239 days ago
> This is all easily verifiable with google and archive.org.

Yes. And I've had a hostile fellow once upon a time put my RL info in the whois and post a bunch of shit on it. I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when its random online public stuff until they are convicted.

The internet "evidence" is way too flimsy to be considered reasonable standards of proof imho.

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sugersvoltet 3239 days ago
That just looks like standard IRC bantz though. Do you know if he was actually trying to sell/weaponize the malware he was developing? (I assume he was, given the indictment, but can't hurt to ask.)
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stickers_ 3239 days ago
Sup ryan, remember me? i used to chill on voidptr sometimes too. I don't know why everyone is so surprised by this

"he's a fucking genius because he got us all" https://twitter.com/x0rz/status/893203106338680832

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