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True stories from the dark side of the Internet. Host @jackrhysider . New episodes released on the first Tuesday of each month. Discord:
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Just discovered the show and not sure where to start? Here are the top 13 most listened to episodes.
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Ep 144: Rachel
@racheltobac
is a social engineer. In this episode we hear how she got started doing this and a few stories of how she hacked people and places using her voice and charm.
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Ran the number. Here's the top 12 most downloaded episodes as of today.
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We did it! With your vote Darknet Diaries has won the people voice award for the Webbys. Thank you all so much! 🏒🥏🥅
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Ep 92: The Pirate Bay
Listen to
@brokep
talk about all the ways The Pirate Bay was attacked and taken down. And guess what, the site's still up 17 years on.
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Hear the story of how
@AletheDenis
became a professional social engineer. Trying to get people to click links they shouldn't or give her passwords that she really shouldn't have.
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Ep 114: HD
@hdmoore
invented a hacking tool called Metasploit. He crammed it with tons of exploits and payloads that can be used to hack into computers. What could possibly go wrong?
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We're excited to be (slowly) posting the entire back catalog of Darknet Diaries to YouTube with little animations to go with it. And all the transcripts are sync'd up with the audio. New videos every Thursday.
Check out the theme song animation!
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What do 8 of the top 10 tech companies, 17 of the world’s largest banks & over 45% of the Fortune 500 have in common?
They all trust
@JuniperNetworks
to power their businesses. The results (and AI) are real. Calculate your savings today:
#ad
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Hey what's that sound? It's a brand new episode of Darknet Diaries! 👀 🎧
Ep 132 - Sam the Vendor
This is the story of how
@DoingFedTime
became a darknet market vendor.
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I am so sick and tired of GDRP cookie popups on so many websites that I went and removed all js trackers and cookies from the website.
Be the change you want to see.
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Darknet Diaires was the 23rd most subscribed to podcast in 2019 on
@pocketcasts
.
I don't believe it!
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Ep 101: Lotería
In 2014 the Puerto Rico Lottery was mysteriously losing money. This story has never been reported before. Listen to find out what happened and who was doing it.
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Ep 86: LinkedIn
In 2012 LinkedIn was breached. This episode tells the story of what happened.
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Ep 100: NSO
@jsrailton
tells us all about The NSO Group and how they sell their Pegasus spyware to governments around the world.
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New episode!
Ep 139: D3F4ULT
Listen to
@_d3f4ult
tell his story. You're not gonna believe this one.
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New milestone. The first episode to cross 1 million downloads!
Ep 100: NSO
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Friends. A new bonus episode will be ready on Tuesday.
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Be vigilant this week.
Saudi Aramco hack was done on Ramadan when nobody was in the office.
Operation Glowing Symphony picked a time when the enemy would not be online.
Bangladesh Bank Hack was done over a 3 day weekend.
Hackers know when to strike.
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The episode Project Raven just won the
@commawards
for best individual documentary episode.
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Ep 57: MS08-067
With special guest
@JohnLaTwC
.
Hear what goes on internally when Microsoft discovers a major vulnerability within Windows.
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You're going to want to listen to this. Ep 25: "Alberto"
Get it now!
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Ep 66: freakyclown
Wanna know what it's like to hack into banks for a living? Come listen to
@_Freakyclown_
tell us stories of how he did it.
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Ep 59: The Courthouse.
THE Courthouse story you've been waiting for! With guests
@Ainchant
and
@redteamwynns
. One of the most requested episodes yet.
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Ep 60: dawgyg. Featuring
@thedawgyg
.
"It's not how you stand by your car. It's how you race your car."
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Ep 112: Dirty Coms
Come with me as we take a rare peek into a few secret online groups who conduct criminal activity. You won't look at the internet the same again after this one.
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Ep 98: Zero Day Brokers
The subject nobody wants to talk about. Except that's why
@nicoleperlroth
spent years tracking down and interviewing zero day brokers. And what she gathered is very eye opening.
Listen on
@spotifypodcasts
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Ep 91: webjedi. What happens when an unauthorized intruder gets into the network of a major bank?
@webjedi
was there for one of these intrusions and tells us the story of what happened.
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Ep 130: Jason's Pen Test
@jhaddix
has done hundreds of penetration tests in his career. He comes on the show today to tell us a few stories of things he's done.
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Ep 110: Spam Botnets
This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We’ll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail.
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Congrats to admin/admin, for being the longest running vulnerability still in production. Here's to 50 more years.
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Ep 93: Kik
The social chat app
@Kik
has some big problems that makes it a very dark place on the Internet.
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All clear! Episode 50 is a go. Hear how the US Military battles ISIS online. It's a must listen...
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Ep 143: Jim Hates Scams
The legendary
@JimBrowning11
tells us about infiltrating scam call centers.
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Ep 68: Triton.
Learn about the most dangerous threat activity ever seen publicly. Thanks to
@Marmusha
and
@RobertMLee
for being guests.
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For the first time, the next episode interviews both the attacker and victim. I think it's really fascinating to hear what happened from both sides. I hope you do too.
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Ep 99: The Spy
@igor_ostrovskiy
is private investigator in NYC. He's often sitting in cars keeping a distant eye on someone with binoculars. In this episode we hear about a time when Igor was on a case but sensed that something wasn't right.
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3D Printed Surveillance Raven. Inspired from episode 47 Project Raven.
Print files here:
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Ep 69: Human Hacker
Come take your mind of the world, and listen to social engineering stories from
@humanhacker
.
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Ep 78: Nerdcore. Turn this one up! 100% of the music this episode is from
@realytcracker
,
@mcohmi
, and
@dualcoremusic
(except for the intro/outro theme tracks).
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Ep 111: ZeuS
One of the most notorious botnets ever created had a main objective of logging into your bank account and transferring your money out. Hear the full story here.
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Ep 137: Predator
This is a mobile malware I want you to become familiar with. Download the episode, put your phone on airplane mode and take a listen. Big thanks to
@LHreports
and
@citizenlab
for sharing their stories.
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Frank Bourassa had an idea. He was going to make money. Literally. Listen to the story of a master counterfeiter.
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Ep 117: Daniel the Paladin.
Like so many other hacking stories, it starts on a video game. And it grows until it becomes a big story on the BBC. This is the story of
@danielmakelley
.
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Ep 138: The Mimics of Punjab
You gonna listen or what? Thanks to Tarun for bringing this story to us. Also thanks to
@naomibrockwell
for enlightening us on digital privacy.
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In episode 49 we unmask Elliot Alderson (
@fs0c131y
) Come, let's go on an adventure together.
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In case you're wondering how the artwork gets made.
I found my main designer on 99 designs.
I send them conceptual ideas with a description, and they take it and make magic out of it. For instance here is an image I sent them, and what they sent back.
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We are busy working on a new video already.
Hi! I'm pretty stoked to be producing and editing some new videos for
@JackRhysider
's
@DarknetDiaries
YouTube channel.
First vid is a chilling look at how powerful and sneaky government hackers are, and the cyber warfare flowing through the tubes 24/7:
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Ep 67: The Big House
Come along and listen to some incredible penetration testing stories from
@strandjs
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Ep 109: TeaMp0isoN
TeaMp0isoN was a hacking group that was founded by TriCk and MLT
@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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Ep 81: The Vendor.
It's a first hand story of how someone became a darknet market vendor.
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Ep 122: Lisa
You've gotta listen to this episode where
@LisaForteUK
tells us about some of the battles she's faced with insider threats.
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Darknet Diaries Ep 36: Jeremy from Marketing.
Special thanks to guest
@TinkerSec
.
Listen on
@ApplePodcasts
or at
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Episode 88: Victor
This episode continues with
@0xdude
and tells the time when he found a security problem that resulted in a criminal investigation.
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Episode 113: Adam
Adam got a job doing IT work at a school. He liked it and was happy there and feeling part of the team. But a strange series of events took him in another direction, that definitely didn't make him happy.
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I updated 3 episodes today. NotPetya (because of new indictments), Triton (because of new sanctions), and Knaves Out (because Ziv was released from prison).
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Ep 74: Mikko.
Poker is a PVP game. So, if you're a criminal hacker, interested in hacking poker, you sometimes choose to target the player.
And we hear about the history of malware from
@mikko
.
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Episode 105: Secret Cells.
@josephfcox
, Senior Staff Writer at
@Motherboard
, joins us to talk about the world of encrypted phones.
#hacking
#technology
#investigation
#crime
#malware
#coolstory
#it
#tech
#online
#internet
#cyber
#podcast
#listentothis
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Ep 103: Cloud Hopper.
Listen to
@fabio_viggiani
talk about a time when he was an incident responder and discovered when his client was breached.
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Episode 108: Marq
This is the story of Marq
@dev_null321
. Which involves passwords, the dark web, and police.
Also
@LisaForteUK
chimes in at the end to give her perspective and tips.
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Ep 94: Mariposa Botnet
Listen to
@DavisSec
talk about the times when he fought off various threats.
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Ep 115: Player Cheater Developer Spy
Some video game players buy cheats to win. Let's take a look at the game cheating industry to see who the players are.
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Eps 60, 61, 62, were black hat stories. 63 is also going to be a black hat story, then moving on to other stories. Maybe focus on a some gov hacking for a while later this year.
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Ep 116: Mad Dog
Jim Lawler, aka "Mad Dog", was a CIA case officer for 25 years. In this episode we hear some of the stories he has and things he did while working in the CIA.
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Ep 97: The Pizza Problem
What if someone tried to wrestle your social media account away from you?
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Ep 140: Revenge Bytes
Madison's nude photos were posted online. Her twin sister Christine came to help. This begins a bizarre and uneasy story.
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Ep 54: NotPetya
Huge thanks to
@a_greenberg
for sharing his story and research he did for his new book Sandworm.
How do you define a "cyber war"? Listen to this episode to hear what I think is the first cyber war we've seen yet.
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Tomorrow's episode will be short. The one after that will be extra long.
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The Darknet Diaires holiday special is here. NoirNet Diaries.
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ep 63: w0rmer
An Anonymous hacker does a thing. Taunts the feds. Makes a mistake. And his life changes in more ways than one.
Featuring
@0x686967
.
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Ep 76: Knaves Out.
The story of how JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest financial institutions in the world got hacked, and who was behind it.
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Ep 64: The Athens Shadow Games
The Olympics is cancelled but that doesn't stop me from publishing a story about the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens. Stuff happened there. That I'm still trying to unravel. Come with me, let's figure this out.
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Ep 121: Ed
In this episode we hear some pen test stories from
@edskoudis
. And we hear from
@beauwoods
.
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Ep 87: Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers
Listen to
@0xDUDE
,
@Yafsec
, and
@alcyonsecurity
and what they did when they got their hands on the 2012 LinkedIn database dump.
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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.
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New Episode!
Ep 141: The Pig Butcher
Come along. You're invited.
@iHeartMalware
is gonna show us the weird and wild world of pig butchering and BEC scams.
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Ep 126: REvil. It's a ransomware. It's a cybergang. It's a crazy story.
Thanks to threat researcher
@BushidoToken
for sharing his findings with us.
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Ep 79: Dark Basin. Featuring interviews from
@jsrailton
and
@CyberClues
of
@CitizenLab
. Hear how they investigated a shady group of hackers who were conducting a major phishing campaign against victims.
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Don't worry. I'll be here for you all the way to the end.
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Ep 58: OxyMonster
OxyMonster sold drugs on the darknet at Dream Market. Something happened though, and it all came crashing down.
Listen now at
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Ep 47 is here. But shhhh. This is a secret story you weren't ever supposed to hear. Hmm. But that must mean something went terribly wrong for it to be here.
Original artwork by
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Ep 145: Shannen
Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did.
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Ep 120: Voulnet
This is the story about when
@Voulnet
, found a vulnerability on Virus Total and Tweeted about it.
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Ep 28: Unit 8200 - Israel has their own version of the NSA called Unit 8200. Listen along to learn what someone gets into the group, what they do, and what these members do once they leave the unit.
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