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The breakthrough in the KimWolf investigation came when a Big Pipes employee discovered that their own IP address was launching attacks. The culprit: a $50 digital picture frame on their home network, secretly turned into a DDoS weapon.
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When a mutual contact told Chris Formosa there was someone he needed to meet, he didn't expect a 22-year-old college student. But from the moment they connected, the collaboration was electric: their first conversation lasted 8 hours, with notes flying back and forth between them [1] — Chris Formosa "8 hours first conversation with Chris: When Ben Brundage first connected with Lumen engineer Chris Formosa, they chatted for 8 hours straig…" 22:32 . Ben shared what he'd learned about IP Idea and the details he'd extracted from his Discord conversations with the anonymous hacker. Chris quickly realized Ben's Discord contact was likely connected to KimWolf itself. Shortly after, Chris introduced Ben to Big Pipes — a secretive working group of engineers from major internet companies, the 'wizards' who monitor the actual flows of data across the internet's backbone. Ben joined their weekly conference calls, a college student suddenly sitting at the same table as the people running the infrastructure of the internet.
Big Pipes is an elite cybersecurity working group of engineers from major internet companies who quietly defend the internet's infrastructure. When they recruited Ben Brundage for their weekly calls, they got something the wizards lacked: a Discord-native who could talk to hackers using cat memes.
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