Dr Doom, the alias I am giving to a friend of mine whom for professional reasons has ceased his blackhat tendencies, but during his rise he and I were in fact my most hated type of person... scriptkiddie. But as I said once before, script kiddies are want to be hackers with learners permits, and that's exactly what we were. We had no motive to do good, we had no motive to do bad, we just wanted to see what we could do, to anyone, at any time. Here is his rise to what he once was, and his stop for a job.
Dr. Doom and I were employees at a retail store selling computers and services to the general public. Before anyone makes a guess of the place, odds are you're already right, and yes I know most people in there don't know anything about what they are talking about. Yet Doom and I were always trying to learn a new technique, or a new trick to bring havoc down on computers, or learn how they work so we could break them. Doom was in college studying VBS scripting and general computer things, and I was just... reading books and watching youtube videos.
As his pseudo boss I couldn't encourage the things we both did at work, but... I did anyway. Forcing computers to crash was fun, testing a batch file that would delete the system32 folder, was funny... we were kids so its what we do. At least it was our "lab" in a sense, we fixed what we broke MOST of the time. In rare occasions someone would buy our masterpiece from us before we could repair it.
To put it bluntly, we were within earshot of a major harbor that brought in a boat load of cargo multiple times a week, the crews would get off the boat, and come to our store to buy laptops and desktops in a rush. Didn't care if it was a shelf display, didn't care if it was open box, didn't care one bit. So there were multiple occasions where these gentleman would buy a laptop that would have its DVD tray pop open every 10 seconds leaving them unable to watch a movie on their trip which was their soul intent. It was horrible, but kind of funny at the same time. That's that script kiddie mentality at work.
I ended up coming across backtrack 5 (which is now Kali Linux), which is a phenomenal penetration testing software, if you're a white or gray hat of course. In the hands of a black hat... not so much.
I found it interesting, made a live boot of it, kind of cool, I just had no time to test it out, full time employee, girlfriend, and wow raids. Doom on the other hand was part time, no girlfriend, full time student, didn't game, he had TONS of time. So I told him how to get it, and he went to town, at college on wifi he was seeing what he could do. Found EVERYTHING he wanted around him, Doom was gaining power in a sinister fashion.
Then while on lunch one day I watched a youtube video about WarDriving, mapped my drive around and it was awesome. Shared this info with Doom as well and... he mixed Kali with WarDriving... found he could use AirCrackNG to get into peoples WiFi. He ended up cracking peoples WiFi, scanning the network, and started sending shutdown commands with horrible comments. "Stop Looking At Porn, Pervert You Just Got A Virus," he'd force these to the start up programs, short batch files that would reboot whenever computers started.
Unexceptionably our tech counter got inundated with work for porn viruses that rebooted computers. I was unaware of what he was doing, just thought I was sharing info, but he came into work proud quite often after that.
He began participating in school sponsored hacking events, he'd consistently make a podium finish, lets be honest this kid was good at what he did. Until he was disqualified for installing a virus on other peoples computers that forced them through proxy sites and into a graphic pornographic website. He put the virus in a mock payload that the opponents were tasked with getting, I say what he did was pretty dang clever, but it apparently breached the rules of the contest. Hacker V Hacker, you have to play dirty, as I've said before you have to be the best bad guy to be a great good guy. Theory and execution don't make you a great good guy, you need to know what your enemy is up to.
Although he got disqualified he did get noticed by a government agency who was impressed with what he was capable of. He signed a contract stating he wouldn't do any black hat activity any more, not even gray, strictly white hat, from now until his contract runs out.
I envy what he's obtained I won't lie, I haven't talked to the guy in 3 or 4 years since he got this sweet gig, this was my ne'er do well counterpart, we broke things for fun, we destroyed things for pleasure, we were script kiddies.
Hopefully when I get the wheels on this project and start rolling, I can get Doom on my staff, or at least a partner, the guy was damn good at what he did 4 years ago, I can only imagine what he's capable of now.
Until next time my goblins, be safe.
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