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Comment by delfinom

5 months ago

"Within 35 miles" is basically all of NYC and the surrounding suburban area lol. It's a ridiculous statement.

This was probably just a phone botnet for online botting purposes, where you want IP addresses in not-obviously-third-world bot countries.

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sunscream89  5 months ago

They were running an extortion and intimidation campaigns.

Remember when Trump was running the second time? Those white Americans who were calling people all throughout America with those moronic threatening messages?

Until it happens to you or yours it is hard to comprehend.

May the Internet gods provide an audio link.

  • delfinom  5 months ago

    Were they? I haven't seen that stated anywhere. The news report from NYTimes does say "the cartels were using it too".

    >One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said agents also found 80 grams of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and cellphones when they discovered the network.

    Sounds like literally a mobile botnet and it was probably just leased out access to a range of users.

    Leasing access to botnets and other resources is 1000% normal in the "crime web" and is a business in of itself rather than being directly part of the crimes.

    On top of that, a "nation state" attacker isn't going to be giving their employees cocaine, unless its Hamas lolololol.