They assume themselves as an internet watchdog and hunters of dangerous people, pedophiles, cyber-criminals and scammers.
The world of cyber-criminals know them as Dark Horse Security Inc. A person who presents herself as Madeline Escobar and works with Alameen Karim Merali. While Mr. Merali does most of the reporting and investigative works, Madeline (Me) operates like his Media Manager posting all the information on their works on Twitter even though she’s the CEO.
The investigative works behind Dark Horse Security Inc. have been well-known through their Twitter Account and Mr. Merali’s Facebook Account, from capturing criminals who perform Wire Fraud online, to helping the Government shutdown drug operations as well as gathering information on criminals to report to Federal Authorities. Their works have not gone unnoticed by any means.
Mr. Merali’s First Works:
The first work of Mr. Merali before he began working with Dark Horse Security Inc. was reputable to the fact that he managed to capture a cyber-terrorist group that kills children called the Blue Whale Suicide Challenge back in 2021 where he contacted a curator of the challenge and the curator exchanged information as well as clicked on a link that gave Mr. Merali the exact location of the terrorist from a Canary Token. After Mr. Merali gathered this information, he contacted an administrator of a Ransomware Protection Group on Telegram named Ransomware.Br, where he was referred and got in contact with a federal agent which the ransomware group was contracting with, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, this is when Mr. Merali’s work as an Informant began. The name of agent cannot be revealed to the media for confidential purposes and the security of the Government. Nonetheless, Information with emails and screenshots to prove this will be shown, with redacted information to some point for confidential purposes. He submitted the information on the criminals to the Federal Authorities, for the first time of criminal terrorists located in Brazil. Here are screenshot’s representing the reporting:
Later on, Mr. Merali further proceeded to work on reporting a group of criminals operating on Telegram Channels known as “The Comm” which has been reported several times for their cyber-crime activities as seen on different media articles such as this one and others. Mr. Merali mentions, this group has ties to multiple crimes, and go by plenty of pseudonyms, including but not limited to 764, Legion, Doxbin, SimLand (SIM Swapping Group) and plenty others that he has identified in his works as an investigator. The worst of them being 764 and other groups tied to 764 since they’re on the international terrorist watchlist. You can learn more about these groups from this Public Service Announcement by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Merali managed to have the group members of 764 arrested immediately after the first report was done after capturing IP Addresses and Device Information from an IP Logger and sent it to the Government Agent. Just a month after the reports we’re done, arrests we’re carried out on plenty of 764 members and even the leader of 764 who goes by “Brad764” online on Telegram and Discord was said to be arrested for very serious crimes. This was back in 2021, but nowadays, even though they’re fewer, they’ve gone to the point murdering homeless people and have been added to the international terrorist watchlist and listed on the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Here are screenshots representing the reporting (With the pictures of the criminals):
How he got deeper into Security Research:
Mr. Merali decided from here that he should find some work on performing more serious security research, such as shutting down other cyber-criminal operations, drug operations, as well as capturing and reporting scammers and thieves. This is when he teamed up with Dark Horse Security Inc. and helped in contributing to his first project which was a Data Breach that was conducted legally with permission from the owner. This all happened after he saw the works of the Retiring Security Researcher who is on his counter-part, named Pavel Maxim Kravkenko, from Moscow, Russia whose currently residing in the United States and whose works have been well-reviewed by CNN News.
Mr. Merali well-known for his capabilities to hack managed to get the data of a popular hacking forum ran by cyber-criminals and crackers whose purposes were to run a forum similar to BreachForum and BlackForum and partner with the Five Families. Mr. Merali managed to get the database, the information on the owner of the forum (Including the address and phone number) and the source code of the forum as well. He sent it to me, and I contacted Mr. Kravkenko through his Twitter, we then published the information we got on Mr. Kravkenko’s Dark Web Archive on GitHub and then I got Mr. Merali to fork the repository and get the NetForums Information added to his GitHub. The information was then sent to the FBI, MI6 and other authorities, since majority of the information on the databases are on UK Citizens. This was Mr. Merali’s first succeess with his work as a Security Researcher in Dark Horse Security Inc.
We even posted about it on our Twitter as well and reached out to Troy Hunt (The owner of HaveIBeenPwned), You can view the Tweet from here:
https://x.com/d4rkh4rs377/status/1706129118520099130?s=46 and https://x.com/d4rkh4rs377/status/1706060520808198416?s=46
Screenshots available to prove this as well:
Security Magazines:
Mr. Merali then decided to write an article to be published on the IT Security Magazine to make his works noticed, even when he’s Googleable, so that he can become a noticable Security Researcher like Mr. Kravkenko. His first approach was the Hakin9 IT Security Magazine, where he published an article about the Dark Web and what happens there as well as how it can help whistleblowers, informants, government officials and people who are under censorship. He even went on further to explain how to make sure privacy is maintained and how Mr. Fitzpatrick (The owner of BreachedForums) was arrested by the FBI. You can read his article from here.
While this is just the first magazine that Mr. Merali published to the internet, there will be more and just Googling his name will reveal the magazines once they’re out.
Other Works:
Mr. Merali’s other works include hunting down and reporting scammers as well as helping Law Enforcement capture Drug Traffickers who sell drugs online. He has several files on his PC which he posted on a post from his Facebook as well, linked to reports sent to Federal Authorities, as seen on the screenshot below:
Mr. Merali further managed to get noticed and outreached his connection and contacts through the use of Facebook and LinkedIn. As further as going forward to connect me with an Agent from CISA as well, whom we work with on cyber-investigations. Through the use of LinkedIn, he has even managed to contact Intelligence Specialists from the CIA and through the use of Facebook, he has made a wide outreach of friends from the Intelligence Agencies around the world as well. We can further see his communication with an intelligence specialist from the CIA from below here, whose Former US President Barrack Obama’s Sister, contacting him and communicating with him from LinkedIn:
Since information about agents cannot be revealed publicly, Mr. Merali decided that some information that’s confidential and not necessary to remain redacted. The rest of the information that they chatted about remains secret.
