THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Postal Inspection Service USPISthe law administration arm of the US Postal Service has listed a job aperture article alleged anIntelligence Gathering Specialist Candidates charge accept bitcoin darknet markets and how to assay the advice stored on ablockchain
The USPIS administration encompasses “crimes that may abnormally affect or fraudulently use the U.S. Mail, the postal arrangement or postal employees.” The advertisement hints the bureau is cutting its cyber abomination efforts.
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“Candidates shall be able of assuming a prioritized appraisal of the abstracts to analyze the best analytical and reliable abstracts in adjustment to analyze bitcoins, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and added arrangement of activity abstracts in an accomplishment to actuate concrete allegation of an Internet identity,” the USPIS stipulates of the Washington, D.C-based position.
The USPIS prefers candidates with acquaintance evaluating internet advice in amusing media, chats, forums, darknets, Tor network, account feeds, internet broadcast chats and added web materials.
“The investigative/internet analyst shall assay the abstracts from these assorted sources and analyze analytic opportunities and intelligence to abutment the abounding analytic programs aural the USPIS to accommodate cybercrime, narcotics, analyze theft, alarming appurtenances and abode violence,” the USPIS explains.
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A Redditor, activity by the pseudonym ‘btcbadboy’, acquaint on Monday screenshots credible of an credible desktop applicant with the job advertisement posted. The account, and all accompanying posts, accept back been deleted. The aboriginal affiche (‘OP’), who claimed to assignment for a government contractor, aggregate his thoughts on the job advertisement based on his experience.
“[T]his is added geared appear [darknet markets]…” declared Btcbadboy. “Heroin and opiates are allegedly acceptable a above affair and for some acumen they accept shutting bottomward the DNM’s will advice with this…”
According to the listing, the USPIS seeks engineers and analysts to de-anonymize the darknet. This web analysis could be accompanying with USPS databases of everyone’s mail already held on book with the agency, the ‘OP’ opined further.
“We about assignment with [USPIS] to agents their tech guys like arrangement engineers and logistic DBA guys,” Btcbadboy comments. “They are hiring 34 bodies for this role, or alluringly 34. I apperceive this doesn’t complete like abundant but this is a appealing big adjustment compared to best positions with them.”
Btcbadboy adds: “From what i aggregate off the buzz alarm apprehensive or attenuated affairs will be logged to a database that can again be activated by USPS as able-bodied as added agencies. They will additionally be application the database to acquisition abode trends (whatever that means).”
Alongside acquaintance with cyber intelligence and software accoutrement to chase and abundance the clearnet and the darknet/deep web, the USPIS seeks an alone with an “advanced compassionate of methods acclimated by cyber abyss to adumbrate themselves on the internet.”
Commenters bidding the job, for which one charge be able to accept a Public Trust and authority a US blooming agenda or passport, ability resemble the accord amid the NSA and clandestine architect firms like Booze Allen Hamilton, which accommodate technicians to the NSA, including bigmouth Edward Snowden.
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The listing highlights USPS efforts to abound cybercrime accompanying abilities.
“The cybercrime affairs reviews arrangement data, collects argumentative images, researches accoutrement and technologies, administers accouterments and software, conducts online investigations into atramentous market/dark web activities affecting the USPS, its chump and employees,” states the job listing. “The investigative/internet analyst shall be advantage accessible antecedent and bartering software accoutrement to review, appraise and aggregate abstracts from a disparate account of accessible and bankrupt web sources, including but not bound to account publications, blogs, amusing media platforms, adhesive sites, government websites, forums, onion sites.”
The USPIS aims to able bottomward on “high contour bazaar places and cyber-criminals that are application the US mail or targeting the USPS, its products, service, arrangement or advisers for advance or exploitation.”
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