Darknet Diaries

Episodes

EP 143: Jim Hates Scams

Jim Browning has dedicated himself to combatting scammers, taking a proactive stance by infiltrating their computer systems. Through his efforts, he not only disrupts these fraudulent operations but also shares his findings publicly on YouTube, sh...

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EP 142: Axact

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

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EP 141: The Pig Butcher

The #1 crime which results in the biggest financial loss is BEC fraud. The #2 crime is pig butchering. Ronnie Tokazowski walks us through this wild world.

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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 139: D3f4ult

This is the story of D3f4ult from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the state of the way things were, and wanted to make some changes. Changes were made.

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EP 138: The Mimics of Punjab

This episode is about scammers in the Punjab region. Tarun comes on the show to tell us a story of what happened to him. Naomi Brockwell makes an appearance to speak about digital privacy.

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EP 137: Predator

A new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It'll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, and more. This malware is being sold to intelligence agencies around the world.

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EP 136: Team Xecuter

Team Xecuter was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They often made mods that allowed the video game system to rip games or play pirated games. It was a crowd favorite in the modding scene. Until it all fell ...

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EP 135: The D.R. Incident

Omar Avilez worked in the CSIRT of the Dominican Republic when a major cyber security incident erupted. Omar walks us through what happened and the incident response procedures that he went through.

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EP 134: Deviant

Deviant Ollam is a physical penetration specialist. That means he's paid to break into buildings to see if the building is secure or not. He has done this for a long time and has a lot of tricks up his sleeve to get into buildings. In this episode...

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EP 131: Welcome To Video

Andy Greenberg brings us a gut wrenching story of how criminal investigators used bitcoin tracing techniques to try to find out who was at the center of a child sexual abuse darkweb website.

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EP 130: Jason's Pen Test

Jason Haddix 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 129: Gollumfun (Part 2)

Brett Johnson, AKA 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.

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EP 128: Gollumfun (Part 1)

Brett Johnson, AKA 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.

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EP 127: Maddie

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

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EP 126: REvil

REvil is the name of a ransomware service as well as a group of criminals inflicting ransomware onto the world. Hear how this ransomware shook the world.

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EP 125: Jeremiah

Jeremiah Roe is a seasoned penetration tester. In this episode he tells us about a time when he had to break into a building to prove it wasn't as secure as the company thought.

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EP 124: Synthetic Remittance

What do you get when you combine social engineering, email, crime, finance, and the money stream flowing through big tech? Evaldas Rimašauskas comes to mind. He combined all these to make his big move. A whale of a move.

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EP 123: Newswires

Investing in the stock market can be very profitable. Especially if you can see into the future. This is a story of how a group of traders and hackers got together to figure out a way to see into the future and make a lot of money from that.

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EP 122: Lisa

In this episode we hear some insider threat stories from Lisa Forte.

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EP 121: Ed

In this episode we hear some penetration test stories from Ed Skoudis. We also catch up with Beau Woods from I am The Cavalry.

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EP 120: Voulnet

This is the story about when Mohammed Aldoub, AKA Voulnet, found a vulnerability on VirusTotal and Tweeted about it.

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EP 119: Hot Wallets

In this episode we hear from journalist Geoff White who talks about some of the recent crypto currency heists that have been happening. Geoff has been tracking a group of thieves for some time and shares his knowledge of what he's found.

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EP 118: Hot Swaps

This is the story of Joseph Harris. When he was a young teen he got involved with stealing video game accounts and selling them for money. This set him on a course where he flew higher and higher until he got burned.

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EP 117: Daniel the Paladin

Daniel Kelley was equal parts mischievousness and clever when it came to computers. Until the day his mischief overtook his cleverness.

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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 114: HD

HD Moore 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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