Darknet Diaries

Episodes

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

EP 122: Lisa

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

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

EP 120: Voulnet

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

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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.

Listen Now

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?

Listen Now

EP 113: Adam

Adam got a job doing IT work at a learning academy. 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.

Listen Now

EP 112: Dirty Coms

This episode we talk with a guy named Drew who gives us a rare peek into what some of the young hackers are up to today. From listening to Drew, we can see that times are changing for the motive behind hacking. In the '90s and '00s it was done for...

Listen Now

EP 111: ZeuS

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.

Listen Now

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. We'll discover who was behind them, what their objectives were and what their fate was.

Listen Now

EP 109: TeaMp0isoN

TeaMp0isoN was a hacking group that was founded by TriCk and MLT. 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.

Listen Now

EP 108: Marq

This is the story of Marq. Which involves passwords, the dark web, and police.

Listen Now

EP 107: Alethe

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.

Listen Now

EP 106: @Tennessee

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.

Listen Now

EP 105: Secret Cells

Joseph Cox, Senior Staff Writer at Motherboard, joins us to talk about the world of encrypted phones.

Listen Now

EP 104: Arya

Arya Ebrahami has had quite a personal relationship with darknet marketplaces. In this episode you’ll hear about his adventures on tor.

Listen Now