He also claimed responsibility for an infamous cyberattack that was intended to sabotage the referendum on Catalan independence in 2014. He also relayed how a client paid him to help in the arrest of Canadian fashion tycoon Peter Nygård for alleged sex crimes. And he boasted of a 2015 attack on the phones of the opposition party in Nigeria, within the framework of an election campaign in which – as the investigation subsequently discovered – he worked together with the notorious U.K. consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
On top of all this came a presentation of a software, the likes of which had never been seen before. This system ran an army of avatars (fake identities) on social media sites, disseminating rumors, harassment, defamation or praise – whatever the client asked for.