The rise and fall of the exploit kit named "RIG"

Hello fellow viewers, tonight I'm going to be making an article explaining the rise and fall of one of the well known exploit kits, "RIG". Rig exploit kit was sold on the forum "exploit.in", a somewhat well-known private Russian forum. After seeing re-sell threads on the forum "HackForums", the owner and one of his "partners" wanted to take action and stop the re-sellers. A user by the name of "0x43" joined the forum and quickly gained reputation, along with some hate on the way. At the start of the sales, the re-seller (0x43) raised the prices almost double what the original coder sold it for on the Russian forum, that raised flags. Some members liked it being sold on hackforums, saying it was a good addition to the forum, and others did not. Below is a quote from a hackforums member when the thread was made

"I really dislike this being sold here, users here are way to unintelligent and too immature." - Hackforums member

one member finally pointed out that the prices were higher than the original seller sold it for. 0x43 said " Price increase. I can set price how ever I set it to."

 After sales went on for weeks, 0x43 was BUSTED, and scammed over 2k+. Shortly after the scammer was exposed, he created a twitter account named "EkMustDie" containing a dump on the most recent rig database and files (stay tuned for download links on that). Long story short, the coder of rig made a huge mistake in trusting this guy, and the rig files were leaked. The member was also banned from HackForums.net permanently.



exploit.in thread (non-scammer non-reseller thread, the coders thread):

hackforums.net thread (SCAMMERS THREAD 0x43's):

I cant seem to upload the image right now, ill update this post asap.