Darknet Diaries

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

Chris Rock is known for being a security researcher. But he’s also a black hat incident responder....

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

In Episode 20 of Darknet Diaries, we heard from Greg aka “mobman” who said he created the sub7 m...

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...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

Ever wondered how far a fan would go to get a sneak peek of their favorite artist’s unreleased tra...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

In this episode, Geoff White (https://x.com/geoffwhite247) tells us what happened to Axie Infinity a...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

In this episode, Joseph Cox (https://x.com/josephfcox) tells us the story of anom. A secure phone ma...

Tue, 07 May 2024

Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did.Read more about her from he...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

Rachel Tobac is a social engineer. In this episode we hear how she got started doing this and a few ...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

Jim Browning has dedicated himself to combatting scammers, taking a proactive stance by infiltrating...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Axact sells fake diplomas and degrees. What could go wrong with this business plan?SponsorsSupport f...

Tue, 02 Jan 2024

The #1 crime which results in the biggest financial loss is BEC fraud. The #2 crime is pig butcherin...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023

Madison's nude photos were posted online. Her twin sister Christine came to help. This begins a biza...

Tue, 07 Nov 2023

This is the story of D3f4ult (twitter.com/_d3f4ult) from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the st...

Tue, 03 Oct 2023

This episode is about scammers in the Punjab region. Tarun (twitter.com/taruns21) comes on the show ...

Tue, 05 Sep 2023

A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, an...

Tue, 01 Aug 2023

Team Xecuter was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They ofte...

Tue, 04 Jul 2023

Omar Avilez worked in the CSIRT of the Dominican Republic when a major cyber security incident erupt...

Tue, 06 Jun 2023

Deviant Ollam is a physical penetration specialist. That means he’s paid to break into buildings t...

Tue, 02 May 2023

One day Connor Tumbleson got an email saying his identity has been stolen. And this was one of the s...

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...

Tue, 27 Dec 2022

Andy Greenberg (https://twitter.com/a_greenberg) brings us a gut wrenching story of how criminal inv...

Tue, 13 Dec 2022

Join us as we sit down with Jason Haddix (https://twitter.com/Jhaddix), a renowned penetration teste...

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Brett Johnson, AKA Gollumfun (twitter.com/GOllumfun) was involved with the websites Counterfeit Libr...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

Brett Johnson, AKA Gollumfun (twitter.com/GOllumfun) was involved with the websites Counterfeit Libr...

Tue, 01 Nov 2022

Maddie Stone is a security researcher for Google’s Project Zero. In this episode we hear what it’...

Tue, 18 Oct 2022

REvil is the name of a ransomware service as well as a group of criminals inflicting ransomware onto...

Tue, 04 Oct 2022

Jeremiah Roe is a seasoned penetration tester. In this episode he tells us about a time when he had ...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022

What do you get when you combine social engineering, email, crime, finance, and the money stream flo...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022

Investing in the stock market can be very profitable. Especially if you can see into the future. Thi...

Tue, 23 Aug 2022

In this episode we hear some insider threat stories from Lisa Forte.SponsorsSupport for this show co...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022

In this episode we hear some penetration test stories from Ed Skoudis (twitter.com/edskoudis). We al...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

This is the story about when Mohammed Aldoub, AKA Voulnet, (twitter.com/Voulnet) found a vulnerabili...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022

In this episode we interview journalist Geoff White to discuss some of the recent crypto currency he...

Tue, 31 May 2022

This is the story of Joseph Harris (https://twitter.com/akad0c). When he was a young teen he got inv...

Tue, 17 May 2022

Daniel Kelley (https://twitter.com/danielmakelley) was equal parts mischievousness and clever when i...

Tue, 03 May 2022

Jim Lawler, aka “Mad Dog”, was a CIA case officer for 25 years. In this episode we hear some of ...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022

Some video game players buy cheats to win. Let’s take a look at this game cheating industry to see...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022

HD Moore (https://twitter.com/hdmoore) invented a hacking tool called Metasploit. He crammed it with...

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...

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...

Tue, 22 Feb 2022

ZeuS is a banking trojan. Designed to steal money from online bank user’s accounts. This trojan be...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022

This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We’ll talk about th...

Tue, 25 Jan 2022

TeaMp0isoN was a hacking group that was founded by TriCk and MLT (twitter.com/0dayWizard). They were...

Tue, 11 Jan 2022

This is the story of Marq (twitter.com/dev_null321). Which involves passwords, the dark web, and pol...

Tue, 21 Dec 2021

Alethe is a social engineer. Professionally she tries to trick people to give her passwords and acce...

Tue, 07 Dec 2021

How much online abuse are you willing to take before you decide to let your abuser have what they wa...

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

Joseph Cox (https://twitter.com/josephfcox), Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard (https://www.vice.co...

Tue, 09 Nov 2021

Arya Ebrahami has had quite a personal relationship with darknet marketplaces. In this episode you’...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021

Fabio Viggiani is an incident responder. In this episode he talks about the story when one of his cl...

Tue, 12 Oct 2021

Frank Bourassa had an idea. He was going to make money. Literally. Listen to the story of a master c...

Tue, 28 Sep 2021

In 2014 the Puerto Rico Lottery was mysteriously losing money. Listen to this never before told stor...

Tue, 31 Aug 2021

The NSO Group creates a spyware called Pegasus which gives someone access to the data on a mobile ph...

Tue, 17 Aug 2021

Igor works as a private investigator in NYC. He’s often sitting in cars keeping a distant eye on s...

Tue, 03 Aug 2021

Zero day brokers are people who make or sell malware that’s sold to people who will use that malwa...

Tue, 20 Jul 2021

What if someone wanted to own your Instagram account? Not just control it, but make it totally their...

Tue, 06 Jul 2021

Nicole Beckwith wears a lot of hats. She’s a programmer, incident responder, but also a cop and a...

Tue, 22 Jun 2021

Jon and Brian are penetration testers who both worked at a place called RedTeam Security. They’...

Tue, 08 Jun 2021

Chris Davis has been stopping IT security threats for decades. He’s currently running the company...

Tue, 25 May 2021

Kik is a wildly popular chat app. Their website says that 1 in 3 American teenagers use Kik. But som...

Tue, 11 May 2021

The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrigh...

Tue, 27 Apr 2021

What happens when an unauthorized intruder gets into the network of a major bank? Amélie Koran aka ...

Tue, 13 Apr 2021

Meet Jenny Radcliffe, the People Hacker. She’s a social engineer and physical penetration tester....

Tue, 06 Apr 2021

The threat research team at Cybereason uncovered an interesting piece of malware. Studied it and tra...

Tue, 30 Mar 2021

Victor looks for vulnerabilities on the web and reports them responsibly. This is the story about d...

Tue, 16 Mar 2021

In 2016 the LinkedIn breach data became available to the public. What the Guild of the Grumpy Old Ha...

Tue, 02 Mar 2021

In 2012, LinkedIn was the target of a data breach. A hacker got in and stole millions of user detail...

Tue, 16 Feb 2021

This is the story of Cam Harrison, aka “kilobit” and his rise and fall as a prominent carder.Sp...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021

How bad is it if you post your boarding pass on Instagram? Our guest, “Alex” decides to figure...

Tue, 19 Jan 2021

In this episode we interview two NSA Cryptologists, Marcus J. Carey and Jeff Man. We hear their s...

Tue, 05 Jan 2021

The Zero Day Initiative runs a hacker contest called Pwn2Own. The contest calls the best hackers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tue, 24 Nov 2020

What do you do when you find yourself the target of a massive hacking campaign, and you are getting ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2020

Nerdcore music is music for nerds. In this episode we hear from some of the musicians who make Nerdc...

Tue, 27 Oct 2020

In February 2018, during the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea, a cyber attack struck, wipi...

Tue, 13 Oct 2020

This is the story about how someone hacked into JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial instit...

Tue, 29 Sep 2020

From 2009 to 2013 the communication channels the CIA uses to contact assets in foreign countries was...

Tue, 15 Sep 2020

Poker is a competitive game. Unlike other casino games, poker is player vs player. Criminal hackers ...

Tue, 01 Sep 2020

It is recommend to listen to episodes 53 “Shadow Brokers”, 71 “FDFF”, and 72 “Banglades...

Tue, 18 Aug 2020

A bank robbery with the objective to steal 1 billion dollars. This is the story of the largest bank ...

Tue, 04 Aug 2020

In this episode, we’re going into the depths of North Korea to conduct one of the greatest hacks o...

Tue, 21 Jul 2020

Ghost Exodus is a hacker. He conducted various illegal activities online. Some of which he documents...

Tue, 07 Jul 2020

We all know that computers and networks are vulnerable to hacking and malicious actors, but what abo...

Tue, 23 Jun 2020

A mysterious mechanical failure one fateful night in a Saudi Arabian chemical plant leads a cast of ...

Tue, 09 Jun 2020

John Strand is a penetration tester. He’s paid to break into computer networks and buildings to t...

Tue, 26 May 2020

Freakyclown is a physical penetration tester. His job is to break into buildings to test the securit...

Tue, 12 May 2020

PSYOP, or “Psychological Operations”, is something the US military has been doing to foreign aud...

Tue, 28 Apr 2020

Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company ...

Tue, 14 Apr 2020

The hacker named w0rmer was active within AnonOps. These are Anonymous Operations which often organi...

Tue, 31 Mar 2020

Cam’s story is both a cautionary tale and inspirational at the same time. He’s been both an atta...

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...

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...

Tue, 18 Feb 2020

In this episode we hear from Gary and Justin. Two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story a...

Tue, 04 Feb 2020

OxyMonster sold drugs on the darknet at Dream Market. Something happened though, and it all came cra...

Tue, 21 Jan 2020

Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows.GuestThan...

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...

Wed, 25 Dec 2019

A holiday special episode. A private pen tester takes on a job that involves him with another eccent...

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...

Tue, 10 Dec 2019

The NSA has some pretty advanced, super secret, hacking tools. What if these secret hacking tools we...

Tue, 26 Nov 2019

Credit card skimming is growing in popularity. Gas pumps all over are seeing skimmers attached to th...

Tue, 12 Nov 2019

Kashmir is a region right in between India, Pakistan, and China. For the last 70 years Pakistan and ...

Wed, 30 Oct 2019

Operation Inherent Resolve was started in 2016 which aimed to combat ISIS. It was a combined joint t...

Tue, 15 Oct 2019

In this episode we meet Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y) from Twitter. Who is this strange masked person?...

Tue, 01 Oct 2019

This is the story about when a nation state hacks into a company within another nation.SponsorsThis ...

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...

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...

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...

Tue, 06 Aug 2019

Ransomware is ugly. It infects your machine and locks all the the data and to unlock you have to pay...

Tue, 23 Jul 2019

This is the story about how I acquired a black badge from DEFCON (pictured above).We also hear the s...

Tue, 09 Jul 2019

Three stories in one episode. Listen in on one of Dave Kennedy's penetration tests he conducted wher...

Tue, 25 Jun 2019

Join JekHyde and Carl on a physical penetration test, a social engineering engagagement, a red team ...

Tue, 11 Jun 2019

Take a ride with a red teamer. A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unaut...

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...

Tue, 14 May 2019

A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this ...

Tue, 30 Apr 2019

The Venetian casino in Las Vegas Nevada was the largest hotel in the world until 2015. The parent co...

Tue, 16 Apr 2019

A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much h...

Tue, 02 Apr 2019

ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A ...

Tue, 19 Mar 2019

Nude selfies. This episode is all about nude selfies. What happens if you take one and give it to a ...

Tue, 05 Mar 2019

In 2009 a hacker broke into a website with millions of users and downloaded the entire user database...

Tue, 19 Feb 2019

A carding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service. How did he steal the cards? Where was he steali...

Tue, 05 Feb 2019

In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they...

Tue, 22 Jan 2019

In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of compu...

Tue, 08 Jan 2019

Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facil...

Sat, 15 Dec 2018

Israel has their own version of the NSA called Unit 8200. I was curious what this unit does and trie...

Sat, 01 Dec 2018

Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and i...

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...

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. ...

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

Darknet markets are online black markets. They are highly illegal, and dangerous to run. Hear exactl...

Mon, 01 Oct 2018

When banks started coming online, they almost immediately started being targeted by hackers. Vladimi...

Sat, 15 Sep 2018

Three stories in one! In this episode we hear about a penetration test from Mubix that he'll never f...

Sat, 01 Sep 2018

Ira Winkler's specialty is assembling elite teams of special forces and intelligence officers to go ...

Wed, 15 Aug 2018

Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malw...

Wed, 01 Aug 2018

In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is t...

Sun, 01 Jul 2018

A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts ...

Sun, 03 Jun 2018

A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and end...

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 ...

Sun, 01 Apr 2018

A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear...

Thu, 01 Mar 2018

In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina....

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...

Thu, 01 Feb 2018

In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating wh...

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a...

Mon, 01 Jan 2018

In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes y...

Fri, 15 Dec 2017

Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?

Fri, 01 Dec 2017

Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time bus...

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...

Wed, 15 Nov 2017

Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.

Wed, 01 Nov 2017

Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with secur...

Sun, 15 Oct 2017

Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry custo...

Sun, 01 Oct 2017

The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role ...

Fri, 15 Sep 2017

VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker down...

Fri, 01 Sep 2017

Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most...