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“Ferris Bueller you’re my hero”
Holden is now sitting on a substantial cache of information on Solaris’ users and operations, which he believes could be used to identify the whereabouts of any Russian cybercriminals who’re using the site to fuel their operations. He’s also kept control over various parts of the market, so far without being detected. By going public via Forbes, he wants to spook the owners into closing the site. There’s a political edge to the attack too. “Maybe Russians without their drugs would soberly look at their country and do something,” he said. “Maybe the Kremlin won’t defend their country’s drug trade and fix the drug problems instead of invading Ukraine.”

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Holden, believing Killnet is funded by Solaris’ drugs money, added that “maybe severing this connection will remove some fuel from the Killnet garbage fire.” >

Holden is a beast. Wow. >

He ain't just Holden. He Swingin >

*SWANGIN >

Swang batter batter batter.... Shawang >

“Ferris Bueller you’re my hero” >

This shows that the only rule of the underworld is „finders keepers, losers weepers” pretty well >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 84%. (I'm a bot)


A Ukrainian says that he broke into the Solaris drug market's master wallet and diverted its funds to a Ukrainian humanitarian charity.
The Mequon, Wisconsin resident is playing dark web Robin Hood: His team at Hold Security has hacked into one of Russia's largest online drug markets, dubbed Solaris, and diverted crypto due to dealers and the site's owners to a charity, Enjoying Life, which provides humanitarian aid across Ukraine.
Holden, who left Kyiv as a teenager in the 1980s amidst fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, declined to reveal how he did it, but said he was able to take control of much of the internet infrastructure powering Solaris, a number of administrator accounts running the illicit bazaar, website source code and a database of its users, as well as drop off locations for drug deliveries.


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Sad that the nature of the wallet meant the amount taken was relatively small. Still happy though >

"With money quickly going in and out of the wallet, it rarely contained more than 3 bitcoin, worth $50,000, Holden said. That meant there wasn’t a huge amount for him to siphon off, though he did manage to grab 1.6 bitcoin, worth $25,000, and sent it to Enjoying Life." >

Not sure I would want my info out there in the news. I might expect to fall out of a hospital window... >

Dude lives in Wisconsin. They're getting like a foot of snow this week. >

We might, depends on location. Further north might get over a foot.
Not sure what the snow has to do with Russian death threats? Just because it is a different country across an ocean doesn't mean a mob won't hunt him down. >

I assumed it was a joke that you might survive a fall out a window if you landed in a foot of snow. >

Yes but that joke forgets about the 2 self inflicted gun shot wounds to the back of the head before he falls out the window. Russian defenestration is very extreme! >

He has information on the users there? Hopefully he's already turned that over to the FBI or he'll be dining on some ricin soon. >

It's a drug market he's not gonna get assassinated in wisconsin by FSB agents.... >

I assume it is safer than Salisbury UK. >

I approve. >

More hacks on evil, is always good! I wonder about Putins accounts…damn that would be a perfect lulz.. >

That is bad fucking ass >

Russia also uses a market called hydra, it works like Solaris or the silk road (used to I guess), but instead of using the mail they fuckin bury the shit and send you the coordinates. >

G.I. Hack: A Real Ukrainian Hero. >

To bad it wasn’t more >

The Human Fund? >

This photo illustration >

Good, good! Get all the money and humiliate the heck out of them, as much as they can! Hit Russia where it hurts the most 😁 >

Oh no.  People in Russia will now begin injecting that synthetic home - made heroine “krokodil” or whatever it was called and their limbs will fall off.  This is going to be very bad.  We saw this before. >


Holden is now sitting on a substantial cache of information on Solaris’ users and operations, which he believes could be used to identify the whereabouts of any Russian cybercriminals who’re using the site to fuel their operations. He’s also kept control over various parts of the market, so far without being detected. By going public via Forbes, he wants to spook the owners into closing the site. There’s a political edge to the attack too. “Maybe Russians without their drugs would soberly look at their country and do something,” he said. “Maybe the Kremlin won’t defend their country’s drug trade and fix the drug problems instead of invading Ukraine.”

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Holden, believing Killnet is funded by Solaris’ drugs money, added that “maybe severing this connection will remove some fuel from the Killnet garbage fire.” >

Holden is a beast. Wow. >

He ain't just Holden. He Swingin >

*SWANGIN >

Swang batter batter batter.... Shawang