Darknet Diaries

Explore true stories of the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a journey through the chilling world of hacking, data breaches, and cyber crime.

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Ep 38: Dark Caracal

Episode Date: May 14, 2019

A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this and attempted to silence her. But they ma...

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Ep 37: LVS

Episode Date: April 30, 2019

The Venetian casino in Las Vegas Nevada was the largest hotel in the world until 2015. The parent company is Las Vegas Sands (LVS) which owns...

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Ep 35: Carbanak

Episode Date: April 2, 2019

ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A security researcher named Barnaby Jack in...

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Ep 33: RockYou

Episode Date: March 5, 2019

In 2009 a hacker broke into a website with millions of users and downloaded the entire user database. What that hacker did with the data has...

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Ep 32: The Carder

Episode Date: February 19, 2019

A carding kingpin was tracked by the Secret Service. How did he steal the cards? Where was he stealing them from? How much was he making doin...

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Ep 31: Hacker Giraffe

Episode Date: February 5, 2019

In late November 2018, a hacker found over 50,000 printers were exposed to the Internet in ways they shouldn't have been. He wanted to raise...

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Ep 30: Shamoon

Episode Date: January 22, 2019

In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of computers were destroyed. Herculean efforts we...

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Ep 29: Stuxnet

Episode Date: January 8, 2019

Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. This virus was successfully...

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Ep 28: Unit 8200

Episode Date: December 15, 2018

Israel has their own version of the NSA called Unit 8200. I was curious what this unit does and tried to take a peek inside. Hear what I foun...

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Ep 27: Chartbreakers

Episode Date: December 1, 2018

Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and intrigued me. I investigate how this is ha...

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Ep 26: IRS

Episode Date: November 15, 2018

The IRS processes $3 trillion dollars a year. A lot of criminals want to get a piece of that. In 2015 the IRS had a large data breach. Hundre...

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Ep 25: Alberto

Episode Date: November 1, 2018

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...

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Ep 23: Vladimir Levin

Episode Date: October 1, 2018

When banks started coming online, they almost immediately started being targeted by hackers. Vladimir Levin was one of the first ever known h...

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Ep 21: Black Duck Eggs

Episode Date: September 1, 2018

Ira Winkler's specialty is assembling elite teams of special forces and intelligence officers to go after companies. Ira shares a story about...

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Ep 20: mobman

Episode Date: August 15, 2018

Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malware he wrote called SubSeven. Hacking cha...