A 15-page federal criminal complaint details how investigators combined a Bitcoin trail with Google cookies, phone records, and more than 500 Uber Eats deliveries to identify Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins as the alleged financier and marketer of a Steam malware campaign. A later search uncovered a Monero seed phrase tied to roughly $382,000 in cumulative transaction activity.
Another good reason to block Google as completely as possible, wipe history for one-off cant-avoid use, ad probably use a VPN. Food delivery via cryptocurrency → gift cards laser designates a target’s home work and other places they might be online. He never rotated or one-timed most of his accounts. ProtonVPN is free for web browsing when needed, and they continue to seem trustworthy, TOR also remains for now an option to access most websites.
We are not criminals but that doesn’t mean we might not get caught in a surveillance dragnet or happen to be on the net at the wrong place at the wrong tme to coincide with a criminal or dissident. Maybe dont pick such an outstandingly outrageous name, sticks out to investigators.
Looks like he was dirty-linking his BTC transactions(which are the most transparent thing on the internet!) to Ubereats and Dorrdash gift cards, the XMR(always private, anonymous, and fungible) seed phrase was found during a warrant search. The guy was smart enough to to the crime, but by lazyness and skipping firewalling steps he will likely have to do some time.
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