And what did the pair discuss? Fortunately, this obscure document gives us a much fuller picture. If you’ve ever wondered what it sounds like to be in the room while cybercriminals do their thing, it sounds something like this:
SOHAIB: “Still connected? Still on the VPN?”
SOHAIB: “Delete all their databases?”
MUNEEB: “Eh, they can recover them…backups, I’m pretty sure.”
SOHAIB: “Daily backups?”
MUNEEB: “Yup.”
SOHAIB: “What’s the plan [then]? We gonna take care of severance or are we gonna do something about…” “Should we retort to whatever they send us by saying we need $25,000 each? Hm?”
MUNEEB: “We are doing petty shit now.”
MUNEEB: “I’m going to wipe my computer clean.”
SOHAIB: “I can’t access the system but I still have the email address for their customers for eCase and FOIAXpress.”
MUNEEB and SOHAIB discuss being compensated by Company-1.
MUNEEB: “I’m not gonna threaten them shit, that’s like could be shown as some sort of . . .”
SOHAIB: “It depends on how you write it. Just say, ‘according to our previous agreement, this is the tally of the amount that I’ve been [paid], if you pay it up front, then I have no reason to communicate with customers.’”
MUNEEB: “I’m good.”
SOHAIB: “Whatcha working on man?”
MUNEEB: “Nothing important, man.”
SOHAIB: “Why won’t you tell me? I ain’t gonna snitch.”
MUNEEB: “Don’t need to. Don’t worry about it.”
MUNEEB: “People are logged out for the day, this is the perfect time.”
SOHAIB: “How do you still have access? When did you connect to their VPN?”
MUNEEB: “10 minutes before their stupid meeting.”
SOHAIB: “You might still have access to it until the end of the day. Until at least 6 hours.”
MUNEEB: “Don’t worry about it man. Don’t worry about it.”
SOHAIB: “I see you are cleaning out their database backups.”
MUNEEB: “Don’t worry about it. You don’t do nothing. Don’t try nothin’. They are looking at you, they are not looking at me.”
SOHAIB: “[G]oing to RDP into their systems and delete all their data.”
[inaudible]
SOHAIB: “The ramifications for that would be worse though.”
MUNEEB: “What are you talking about? I didn’t do nothing. They closed my access when they had that meeting.”
SOHAIB: “Alright, if you have good plausible deniability.”
SOHAIB and MUNEEB then have additional discussion about deleting backups and changing DNS information.
MUNEEB: “Eh, they can recover from yesterday. [The IT manager] will have some work to do.”
MUNEEB and SOHAIB discuss Company-1 customers, including Veteran’s Affairs OIG, Education Department OIG, DHS OIG, and customer data.
MUNEEB: “DHS was a big [customer].”
SOHAIB: “Just go into each of them and start the delete process. It will take its time. . . It will eventually delete all their files.”
MUNEEB: “Sabes, don’t say nothin’, OK, don’t worry about it.”
SOHAIB: “I ain’t sayin’ shit.”
SOHAIB: “You should have thought about it prior, man.”
MUNEEB: “What do you mean? Like had a kill script, what do you mean?”
SOHAIB: “Blackmailing them in for some money would’ve been…”
MUNEEB: “No, you do not do that. That’s proof of guilt, man.”
SOHAIB: “No but the thing was you always have your opinion, I could just communicate with their customers.”
MUNEEB: “Communicate with their customers is a different thing!”
SOHAIB: “So you’re saying these are two separate things?”
MUNEEB: “There ya go. Go say that man, go argue for that, then they’ll think you’re the one behind this shit.”
SOHAIB: “. . . They’re gonna probably raid this place.”
MUNEEB: “Eh, I’ll clean this shit up. I don’t got shit.”
SOHAIB: “We also gotta clean stuff up from the other house man.”
MUNEEB: “Get rid of that shit.”
SOHAIB: “Deleting their filesystems would be a harder fix.”
MUNEEB: “Mhhmm, especially if you clear it out.”
MUNEEB: “Everything that I did, I’m making sure it’s protected. That it’s clean.”
MUNEEB: “Don’t worry, we’ll go to Texas.”
Neither brother is currently in Texas; both are in federal prison. Sohaib was found guilty at trial last week, while Muneeb pleaded guilty in April 2026—but has been furiously trying to take back his plea ever since through a series of handwritten letters to the judge.
