| there are quite a couple of so called guides (opsec playbooks for crime) that I found specifically on Wall Street Market (a darknet market place like the now defunct Silkroad), available for purchase. Some of them go beyond just instruction booklets but promise access to their chat systems via invitation (upon purchase of the pdf) and offer some kind of limited coaching. It is essentially the recruiting mechanism to bring in lower ranking soldiers starting out as mules, handlers, or basically move up from re-selling goods. A couple of these guides point out how much Telegram sucks etc, and that they now have moved to p2p based systems. One praised Matrix heavily for it's good security feature. The tech-savvy-ness of many vendors has picked up considerably since I first started watching. There is a strong push to re-think and refactor both tools and their processes (yes yes - this happens constantly otherwise they get caught, but never as fast or aggressive than these past months). It's likely that this is just a (s)kiddy enjoying the attention. Though quite a lot of players have more than just an "academic" desire to ensure these (their) systems can withstand an attack by LE. When I browsed the matrix issues on github I couldn't help but immediately recall the strange emphasis on "we have switched to matrix". It's far fetched but I'd say somebody may have a strong interest in seeing these issues resolved (->or has gotten genuinely fed up and wanted to do something, as opposed to this being just a skid that only did it for the attention) for a good analysis on how some of these tutorials and the philosophy behind them see: "Discovering credit card fraud methods in online tutorials" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303418684_Discoveri... |