Alberto Hill was sent to prison for a long time for hacking. For a crime he said he did not commit. Listen to his story and you be the judge on whether he's guilty or not.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lotería

4 1 Sep 28th, 2021 1h 13m

In 2014 the Puerto Rico Lottery was mysteriously losing money. Listen to this never before told story about what happened and who did it.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/d

The Spy

1 2 Aug 17th, 2021 1h 14m

Igor works as a private investigator in NYC. He’s often sitting in cars keeping a distant eye on someone with binoculars. Or following someone through the busy streets of New York. In this episode we hear about a time when Igor was on a case bu

The Pizza Problem

2 3 Jul 20th, 2021 48m 19s

What if someone wanted to own your Instagram account? Not just control it, but make it totally theirs. This episode tells the story of how someone tried to steal an Instagram account from someone.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from Linod

Jeremy from Marketing

3 1 Apr 16th, 2019 1h 4m

A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much he can hack into in his first week on the job. It doesn't go as planned.Thanks to @TinkerSec for telling us this story.This episode was sponsor

The Pirate Bay

2 1 May 11th, 2021 1h 46m

The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site, but the site doesn’t store any of the copyrighted material. It just points the user to where you can downloa

NSO

1 1 Aug 31st, 2021 1h 12m

The NSO Group creates a spyware called Pegasus which gives someone access to the data on a mobile phone. They sell this spyware to government agencies around the world. How is it used and what kind of company is the NSO Group?Thanks to John S

Jenny

3 1 Apr 13th, 2021 1h 12m

Meet Jenny Radcliffe, the People Hacker. She’s a social engineer and physical penetration tester. Which means she gets paid to break into buildings and test their security. In this episode she tells us a few stories of some penetration testing

The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker

1 Sep 15th, 2017 25m 20s

VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker downloaded gigs of children's data. Discover what the hacker did once he took the data.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a

Money Maker

2 Oct 12th, 2021 1h 22m

Frank Bourassa had an idea. He was going to make money. Literally. Listen to the story of a master counterfeiter.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WannaCry

Sep 1st, 2020 46m 51s

It is recommend to listen to episodes 53 “Shadow Brokers”, 71 “FDFF”, and 72 “Bangladesh Bank Heist” before listening to this one.In May 2017 the world fell victim to a major ransomware attack known as WannaCry. One of the victims was UK’s na

Operation Bayonet

1 Oct 15th, 2018 42m 12s

Darknet markets are online black markets. They are highly illegal, and dangerous to run. Hear exactly how dangerous it was for Alphabay and Hansa dark markets.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shamoon

4 Jan 22nd, 2019 38m 21s

In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of computers were destroyed. Herculean efforts were made to restore them to operational status again. But who would do such an attack?Very special than

The Beirut Bank Job

3 3 Nov 15th, 2017 31m 19s

Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alethe

1 Dec 21st, 2021 59m 36s

Alethe is a social engineer. Professionally she tries to trick people to give her passwords and access that she shouldn’t have. But her journey to this point is interesting and in this episode she tells us how she became a social engineer.Foll

Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers

2 1 Mar 16th, 2021 50m 53s

In 2016 the LinkedIn breach data became available to the public. What the Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers did with it then is quite the story. Listen to Victor, Edwin, and Mattijs tell their story.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from Blin

The Athens Shadow Games

Apr 28th, 2020 1h 17m

Vodafone Greece is the largest telecom provider in Greece. But in 2004 a scandal within the company would pin them to be top of the news cycle in Greece for weeks. Hackers got in the network. And what they were after took everyone by surprise.

Misadventures of a Nation State Actor

1 Jan 1st, 2018 35m 25s

In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes you on a ride with a nation state actor to see exactly how it's done.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gollumfun Part 1

1 Nov 15th, 2022 1h 3m

Brett Johnson, AKA Gollumfun (twitter.com/GOllumfun) was involved with the websites Counterfeit Library and Shadow Crew. He tells his story of what happened there and some of the crimes he committed.SponsorsSupport for this show comes from A

Jon & Brian's Big Adventure

1 Jun 22nd, 2021 1h 17m

Jon and Brian are penetration testers who both worked at a place called RedTeam Security. They’re paid to break into buildings and hack into networks to test the security of those buildings. In this episode they bring us a story of how they pre

Ghost Exodus

1 Jul 21st, 2020 58m 31s

Ghost Exodus is a hacker. He conducted various illegal activities online. Some of which he documents on YouTube. He’s also a great musician. He got into some trouble from his hacking. This is his story.A big thanks to Ghost Exodus for sharing

Chartbreakers

1 Dec 1st, 2018 50m 14s

Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and intrigued me. I investigate how this is happening and who is behind it.For show notes visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27.This episode

Bangladesh Bank Heist

2 3 Aug 18th, 2020 39m 47s

A bank robbery with the objective to steal 1 billion dollars. This is the story of the largest bank robbery in history. And it was all done over a computer.Our guest this episode was Geoff White. Learn more about him at geoffwhite.tech.Check

Stuxnet

1 Jan 8th, 2019 43m 6s

Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. This virus was successfully able to destroy numerous centrifuges. Hear who did it and why.Special thanks to Kim Zetter for joining

The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox

1 Dec 15th, 2017 30m 53s

Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices