Stay ConnectedExplore 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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ZeuS is a banking trojan. Designed to steal money from online bank user’s accounts. This trojan became so big, that it resulted in one of the biggest FBI operations ever.
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This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We’ll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail. We’ll discover who was behind them, what their objectives were, and what their fate was.
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TeaMp0isoN was a hacking group that was founded by TriCk and MLT (twitter.com/0dayWizard). They were responsible for some high profile hacks. But in this story it’s not the rise that’s most interesting. It’s the fall.
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This is the story of Marq (twitter.com/dev_null321). Which involves passwords, the dark web, and police.
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Court records and news articles were used to fact check this episode. However Marq requested that links to his full name not be made available.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/19/ring-doorbell-passwords-exposed/
https://www.wired.com/2010/03/hacker-bricks-cars/
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.
Follow Alethe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AletheDenis
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How much online abuse are you willing to take before you decide to let your abuser have what they want? Unfortunately, this is a decision that many people have to ask themselves. If someone can threaten you physically, it bypasses whatever digital security you have in place.
Thanks to https://twitter.com/jw for sharing this harrowing story with us.
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Joseph Cox (https://twitter.com/josephfcox), Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard (https://www.vice.com/en/topic/motherboard), joins us to talk about the world of encrypted phones.
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Arya Ebrahami has had quite a personal relationship with darknet marketplaces. In this episode you’ll hear about his adventures on tor. Arya’s current project is https://lofi-defi.com.
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Sources
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/27-arrested-in-prince-william-county-narcotics-investigation/58441/
https://patch.com/virginia/manassas/undercover-narcotics-operation-nets-27-arrrests-xanax-distribution-ring
Fabio Viggiani is an incident responder. In this episode he talks about the story when one of his clients were breached.
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Sources
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/china-cyber-cloudhopper
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-cloudhopper-companies-exc-idUSKCN1TR1D4
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/apt-10-group
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277A09ON7mY
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ghosts-in-the-clouds-inside-chinas-major-corporate-hack-11577729061
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/20/239760/chinese-hackers-allegedly-stole-data-of-more-than-100000-us-navy-personnel/
Frank Bourassa had an idea. He was going to make money. Literally. Listen to the story of a master counterfeiter.
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