150: mobman 2
Tue, 01 Oct 2024
In Episode 20 of Darknet Diaries, we heard from Greg aka “mobman” who said he created the sub7 m...
149: Mini-Stories: Vol 3
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
In this episode we hear EvilMog (https://x.com/Evil_Mog) tell us a story about when he had to troubl...
148: Dubsnatch
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
Ever wondered how far a fan would go to get a sneak peek of their favorite artist’s unreleased tra...
147: Tornado
Tue, 02 Jul 2024
In this episode, Geoff White (https://x.com/geoffwhite247) tells us what happened to Axie Infinity a...
146: ANOM
Tue, 04 Jun 2024
In this episode, Joseph Cox (https://x.com/josephfcox) tells us the story of anom. A secure phone ma...
145: Shannen
Tue, 07 May 2024
Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did.Read more about her from he...
144: Rachel
Tue, 02 Apr 2024
Rachel Tobac is a social engineer. In this episode we hear how she got started doing this and a few ...
143: Jim Hates Scams
Tue, 05 Mar 2024
Jim Browning has dedicated himself to combatting scammers, taking a proactive stance by infiltrating...
142: Axact
Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Axact sells fake diplomas and degrees. What could go wrong with this business plan?SponsorsSupport f...
141: The Pig Butcher
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
The #1 crime which results in the biggest financial loss is BEC fraud. The #2 crime is pig butcherin...
140: Revenge Bytes
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
Madison's nude photos were posted online. Her twin sister Christine came to help. This begins a biza...
139: D3f4ult
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
This is the story of D3f4ult (twitter.com/_d3f4ult) from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the st...
138: The Mimics of Punjab
Tue, 03 Oct 2023
This episode is about scammers in the Punjab region. Tarun (twitter.com/taruns21) comes on the show ...
137: Predator
Tue, 05 Sep 2023
A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, an...
136: Team Xecuter
Tue, 01 Aug 2023
Team Xecuter was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They ofte...
135: The D.R. Incident
Tue, 04 Jul 2023
Omar Avilez worked in the CSIRT of the Dominican Republic when a major cyber security incident erupt...
134: Deviant
Tue, 06 Jun 2023
Deviant Ollam is a physical penetration specialist. That means he’s paid to break into buildings t...
133: I'm the Real Connor
Tue, 02 May 2023
One day Connor Tumbleson got an email saying his identity has been stolen. And this was one of the s...
132: Sam the Vendor
Tue, 04 Apr 2023
Sam Bent, a.k.a. DoingFedTime, brings us a story of what it was like being a darknet market vendor.L...
131: Welcome to Video
Tue, 27 Dec 2022
Andy Greenberg (https://twitter.com/a_greenberg) brings us a gut wrenching story of how criminal inv...
130: Jason's Pen Test
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
Join us as we sit down with Jason Haddix (https://twitter.com/Jhaddix), a renowned penetration teste...
129: Gollumfun (Part 2)
Tue, 29 Nov 2022
Brett Johnson, AKA Gollumfun (twitter.com/GOllumfun) was involved with the websites Counterfeit Libr...
128: Gollumfun (Part 1)
Tue, 15 Nov 2022
Brett Johnson, AKA Gollumfun (twitter.com/GOllumfun) was involved with the websites Counterfeit Libr...
127: Maddie
Tue, 01 Nov 2022
Maddie Stone is a security researcher for Google’s Project Zero. In this episode we hear what it’...
126: REvil
Tue, 18 Oct 2022
REvil is the name of a ransomware service as well as a group of criminals inflicting ransomware onto...
125: Jeremiah
Tue, 04 Oct 2022
Jeremiah Roe is a seasoned penetration tester. In this episode he tells us about a time when he had ...
124: Synthetic Remittance
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
What do you get when you combine social engineering, email, crime, finance, and the money stream flo...
123: Newswires
Tue, 06 Sep 2022
Investing in the stock market can be very profitable. Especially if you can see into the future. Thi...
122: Lisa
Tue, 23 Aug 2022
In this episode we hear some insider threat stories from Lisa Forte.SponsorsSupport for this show co...
121: Ed
Tue, 26 Jul 2022
In this episode we hear some penetration test stories from Ed Skoudis (twitter.com/edskoudis). We al...
120: Voulnet
Tue, 28 Jun 2022
This is the story about when Mohammed Aldoub, AKA Voulnet, (twitter.com/Voulnet) found a vulnerabili...
119: Hot Wallets
Tue, 14 Jun 2022
In this episode we interview journalist Geoff White to discuss some of the recent crypto currency he...
118: Hot Swaps
Tue, 31 May 2022
This is the story of Joseph Harris (https://twitter.com/akad0c). When he was a young teen he got inv...
117: Daniel the Paladin
Tue, 17 May 2022
Daniel Kelley (https://twitter.com/danielmakelley) was equal parts mischievousness and clever when i...
116: Mad Dog
Tue, 03 May 2022
Jim Lawler, aka “Mad Dog”, was a CIA case officer for 25 years. In this episode we hear some of ...
115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
Tue, 19 Apr 2022
Some video game players buy cheats to win. Let’s take a look at this game cheating industry to see...
114: HD
Tue, 05 Apr 2022
HD Moore (https://twitter.com/hdmoore) invented a hacking tool called Metasploit. He crammed it with...
113: Adam
Tue, 22 Mar 2022
Adam got a job doing IT work at a learning academy. He liked it and was happy there and feeling part...
112: Dirty Coms
Tue, 08 Mar 2022
This episode we talk with a guy named “Drew” who gives us a rare peek into what some of the youn...
111: ZeuS
Tue, 22 Feb 2022
ZeuS is a banking trojan. Designed to steal money from online bank user’s accounts. This trojan be...
110: Spam Botnets
Tue, 08 Feb 2022
This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We’ll talk about th...
109: TeaMp0isoN
Tue, 25 Jan 2022
TeaMp0isoN was a hacking group that was founded by TriCk and MLT (twitter.com/0dayWizard). They were...
108: Marq
Tue, 11 Jan 2022
This is the story of Marq (twitter.com/dev_null321). Which involves passwords, the dark web, and pol...
107: Alethe
Tue, 21 Dec 2021
Alethe is a social engineer. Professionally she tries to trick people to give her passwords and acce...
106: @Tennessee
Tue, 07 Dec 2021
How much online abuse are you willing to take before you decide to let your abuser have what they wa...
105: Secret Cells
Tue, 23 Nov 2021
Joseph Cox (https://twitter.com/josephfcox), Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard (https://www.vice.co...
104: Arya
Tue, 09 Nov 2021
Arya Ebrahami has had quite a personal relationship with darknet marketplaces. In this episode you’...
103: Cloud Hopper
Tue, 26 Oct 2021
Fabio Viggiani is an incident responder. In this episode he talks about the story when one of his cl...
102: Money Maker
Tue, 12 Oct 2021
Frank Bourassa had an idea. He was going to make money. Literally. Listen to the story of a master c...
101: Lotería
Tue, 28 Sep 2021
In 2014 the Puerto Rico Lottery was mysteriously losing money. Listen to this never before told stor...
100: NSO
Tue, 31 Aug 2021
The NSO Group creates a spyware called Pegasus which gives someone access to the data on a mobile ph...
99: The Spy
Tue, 17 Aug 2021
Igor works as a private investigator in NYC. He’s often sitting in cars keeping a distant eye on s...
98: Zero Day Brokers
Tue, 03 Aug 2021
Zero day brokers are people who make or sell malware that’s sold to people who will use that malwa...
97: The Pizza Problem
Tue, 20 Jul 2021
What if someone wanted to own your Instagram account? Not just control it, but make it totally their...
96: The Police Station Incident
Tue, 06 Jul 2021
Nicole Beckwith wears a lot of hats. She’s a programmer, incident responder, but also a cop and a...
95: Jon & Brian's Big Adventure
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
Jon and Brian are penetration testers who both worked at a place called RedTeam Security. They’...
94: Mariposa
Tue, 08 Jun 2021
Chris Davis has been stopping IT security threats for decades. He’s currently running the company...
93: Kik
Tue, 25 May 2021
Kik is a wildly popular chat app. Their website says that 1 in 3 American teenagers use Kik. But som...
92: The Pirate Bay
Tue, 11 May 2021
The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrigh...
91: webjedi
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
What happens when an unauthorized intruder gets into the network of a major bank? Amélie Koran aka ...
90: Jenny
Tue, 13 Apr 2021
Meet Jenny Radcliffe, the People Hacker. She’s a social engineer and physical penetration tester....
89: Cybereason - Molerats in the Cloud
Tue, 06 Apr 2021
The threat research team at Cybereason uncovered an interesting piece of malware. Studied it and tra...
88: Victor
Tue, 30 Mar 2021
Victor looks for vulnerabilities on the web and reports them responsibly. This is the story about d...
87: Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers
Tue, 16 Mar 2021
In 2016 the LinkedIn breach data became available to the public. What the Guild of the Grumpy Old Ha...
86: The LinkedIn Incident
Tue, 02 Mar 2021
In 2012, LinkedIn was the target of a data breach. A hacker got in and stole millions of user detail...
85: Cam the Carder
Tue, 16 Feb 2021
This is the story of Cam Harrison, aka “kilobit” and his rise and fall as a prominent carder.Sp...
84: Jet-setters
Tue, 02 Feb 2021
How bad is it if you post your boarding pass on Instagram? Our guest, “Alex” decides to figure...
83: NSA Cryptologists
Tue, 19 Jan 2021
In this episode we interview two NSA Cryptologists, Marcus J. Carey and Jeff Man. We hear their s...
82: Master of Pwn
Tue, 05 Jan 2021
The Zero Day Initiative runs a hacker contest called Pwn2Own. The contest calls the best hackers ...
81: The Vendor
Tue, 22 Dec 2020
This is the story of a darknet marketplace vendor we’ll name V. V tells his story of how he first ...
80: The Whistleblower
Tue, 08 Dec 2020
In this episode we hear a story from a social engineer who’s job it is to get people to do things ...
79: Dark Basin
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
What do you do when you find yourself the target of a massive hacking campaign, and you are getting ...
78: Nerdcore
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
Nerdcore music is music for nerds. In this episode we hear from some of the musicians who make Nerdc...
77: Olympic Destroyer
Tue, 27 Oct 2020
In February 2018, during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea, a cyber attack struck, wipi...
76: Knaves Out
Tue, 13 Oct 2020
This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial instit...
75: Compromised Comms
Tue, 29 Sep 2020
From 2009 to 2013 the communication channels the CIA uses to contact assets in foreign countries was...
74: Mikko
Tue, 15 Sep 2020
Poker is a competitive game. Unlike other casino games, poker is player vs player. Criminal hackers ...
73: WannaCry
Tue, 01 Sep 2020
It is recommend to listen to episodes 53 “Shadow Brokers”, 71 “FDFF”, and 72 “Banglades...
72: Bangladesh Bank Heist
Tue, 18 Aug 2020
A bank robbery with the objective to steal 1 billion dollars. This is the story of the largest bank ...
71: Information Monopoly
Tue, 04 Aug 2020
In this episode, we’re going into the depths of North Korea to conduct one of the greatest hacks o...
70: Ghost Exodus
Tue, 21 Jul 2020
Ghost Exodus is a hacker. He conducted various illegal activities online. Some of which he documents...
69: Human Hacker
Tue, 07 Jul 2020
We all know that computers and networks are vulnerable to hacking and malicious actors, but what abo...
68: Triton
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
A mysterious mechanical failure one fateful night in a Saudi Arabian chemical plant leads a cast of ...
67: The Big House
Tue, 09 Jun 2020
John Strand is a penetration tester. He’s paid to break into computer networks and buildings to t...
66: freakyclown
Tue, 26 May 2020
Freakyclown is a physical penetration tester. His job is to break into buildings to test the securit...
65: PSYOP
Tue, 12 May 2020
PSYOP, or “Psychological Operations”, is something the US military has been doing to foreign aud...
64: The Athens Shadow Games
Tue, 28 Apr 2020
Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company ...
63: w0rmer
Tue, 14 Apr 2020
The hacker named w0rmer was active within AnonOps. These are Anonymous Operations which often organi...
62: Cam
Tue, 31 Mar 2020
Cam’s story is both a cautionary tale and inspirational at the same time. He’s been both an atta...
61: Samy
Tue, 17 Mar 2020
Samy Kamkar is a hacker. And while he’s done a lot of stuff, he’s best known for creating the Sa...
60: dawgyg
Tue, 03 Mar 2020
This is a story about the hacker named “dawgyg” and how he made over $100,000 in a single day, f...
59: The Courthouse
Tue, 18 Feb 2020
In this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story a...
58: OxyMonster
Tue, 04 Feb 2020
OxyMonster sold drugs on the darknet at Dream Market. Something happened though, and it all came cra...
57: MS08-067
Tue, 21 Jan 2020
Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows.GuestThan...
56: Jordan
Tue, 07 Jan 2020
This is the story of Jordan Harbinger. A bit of a misfit teenager, who was always on the edge of tro...
55: NoirNet
Wed, 25 Dec 2019
A holiday special episode. A private pen tester takes on a job that involves him with another eccent...
54: NotPetya
Tue, 24 Dec 2019
The story of NotPetya, seems to be the first time, we see what a cyber war looks like. In the summer...
53: Shadow Brokers
Tue, 10 Dec 2019
The NSA has some pretty advanced, super secret, hacking tools. What if these secret hacking tools we...
52: Magecart
Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Credit card skimming is growing in popularity. Gas pumps all over are seeing skimmers attached to th...
Ep 51: The Indo-Pak Conflict
Tue, 12 Nov 2019
Kashmir is a region right in between India, Pakistan, and China. For the last 70 years Pakistan and ...
Ep 50: Operation Glowing Symphony
Wed, 30 Oct 2019
Operation Inherent Resolve was started in 2016 which aimed to combat ISIS. It was a combined joint t...
Ep 49: Elliot
Tue, 15 Oct 2019
In this episode we meet Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) from Twitter. Who is this strange masked person?...
Ep 48: Operation Socialist
Tue, 01 Oct 2019
This is the story about when a nation state hacks into a company within another nation.SponsorsThis ...
Ep 47: Project Raven
Tue, 17 Sep 2019
This is the story about an ex-NSA agent who went to work for a secret hacking group in the UAE.Spons...
Ep 46: XBox Underground (Part 2)
Tue, 03 Sep 2019
This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed their luck a little to...
Ep 45: XBox Underground (Part 1)
Tue, 20 Aug 2019
This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed the hacking a little t...
Ep 44: Zain
Tue, 06 Aug 2019
Ransomware is ugly. It infects your machine and locks all the the data and to unlock you have to pay...
Ep 43: PPP
Tue, 23 Jul 2019
This is the story about how I acquired a black badge from DEFCON (pictured above).We also hear the s...
Ep 42: Mini-Stories: Vol 2
Tue, 09 Jul 2019
Three stories in one episode. Listen in on one of Dave Kennedy's penetration tests he conducted wher...
Ep 41: Just Visiting
Tue, 25 Jun 2019
Join JekHyde and Carl on a physical penetration test, a social engineering engagagement, a red team ...
Ep 40: No Parking
Tue, 11 Jun 2019
Take a ride with a red teamer. A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unaut...
Ep 39: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter
Tue, 28 May 2019
A talk at Defcon challenged people to find a way to destroy a hard drive. A young man was inspired b...
Ep 38: Dark Caracal
Tue, 14 May 2019
A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this ...
Ep 37: LVS
Tue, 30 Apr 2019
The Venetian casino in Las Vegas Nevada was the largest hotel in the world until 2015. The parent co...
Ep 36: Jeremy from Marketing
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much h...
Ep 35: Carbanak
Tue, 02 Apr 2019
ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A ...
Ep 34: For Your Eyes Only
Tue, 19 Mar 2019
Nude selfies. This episode is all about nude selfies. What happens if you take one and give it to a ...
Ep 33: RockYou
Tue, 05 Mar 2019
In 2009 a hacker broke into a website with millions of users and downloaded the entire user database...
Ep 32: The Carder
Tue, 19 Feb 2019
A carding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service. How did he steal the cards? Where was he steali...
Ep 31: Hacker Giraffe
Tue, 05 Feb 2019
In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they...
Ep 30: Shamoon
Tue, 22 Jan 2019
In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of compu...
Ep 29: Stuxnet
Tue, 08 Jan 2019
Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facil...
Ep 28: Unit 8200
Sat, 15 Dec 2018
Israel has their own version of the NSA called Unit 8200. I was curious what this unit does and trie...
Ep 27: Chartbreakers
Sat, 01 Dec 2018
Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and i...
Ep 26: IRS
Thu, 15 Nov 2018
The IRS processes $3 trillion dollars a year. A lot of criminals want to get a piece of that. In 201...
Ep 25: Alberto
Thu, 01 Nov 2018
Alberto Hill was sent to prison for a long time for hacking. For a crime he said he did not commit. ...
Ep 24: Operation Bayonet
Mon, 15 Oct 2018
Darknet markets are online black markets. They are highly illegal, and dangerous to run. Hear exactl...
Ep 23: Vladimir Levin
Mon, 01 Oct 2018
When banks started coming online, they almost immediately started being targeted by hackers. Vladimi...
Ep 22: Mini-Stories: Vol 1
Sat, 15 Sep 2018
Three stories in one! In this episode we hear about a penetration test from Mubix that he'll never f...
Ep 21: Black Duck Eggs
Sat, 01 Sep 2018
Ira Winkler's specialty is assembling elite teams of special forces and intelligence officers to go ...
Ep 20: mobman
Wed, 15 Aug 2018
Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malw...
Ep 19: Operation Aurora
Wed, 01 Aug 2018
In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is t...
Ep 18: Jackpot
Sun, 01 Jul 2018
A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts ...
Ep 17: Finn
Sun, 03 Jun 2018
A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and end...
Ep 16: Eijah
Tue, 01 May 2018
In 2007, a hacker named Eijah got fed up with the way DRM prevented him from being able to play the ...
Ep 15: Ill Tills
Sun, 01 Apr 2018
A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear...
Ep 14: #OpJustina
Thu, 01 Mar 2018
In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina....
Ep 13: Carna Botnet
Thu, 15 Feb 2018
In 2012 the Carna Bot was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn't have any intentions on doi...
Ep 12: Crypto Wars
Thu, 01 Feb 2018
In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating wh...
Ep 11: Strictly Confidential
Mon, 15 Jan 2018
What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a...
Ep 10: Misadventures of a Nation State Actor
Mon, 01 Jan 2018
In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes y...
Ep 9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox
Fri, 15 Dec 2017
Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?
Ep 8: Manfred (Part 2)
Fri, 01 Dec 2017
Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time bus...
Ep 7: Manfred (Part 1)
Fri, 01 Dec 2017
Manfred has had the most epic story of all online video game stories. For the last 20 years, he's be...
Ep 6: The Beirut Bank Job
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.
Ep 5: #ASUSGATE
Wed, 01 Nov 2017
Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with secur...
Ep 4: Panic! at the TalkTalk Board Room
Sun, 15 Oct 2017
Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry custo...
Ep 3: DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!
Sun, 01 Oct 2017
The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role ...
Ep 2: The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker
Fri, 15 Sep 2017
VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker down...
Ep 1: The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking
Fri, 01 Sep 2017
Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most...