Darknet Diaries

By Jack Rhysider

What's Darknet Diaries about?

Explore the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a journey through the chilling world of privacy hacks, data breaches, and cyber crime. The masterful criminal hackers who dwell on the dark side show us just how vulnerable we all are.

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Ep 48: Operation Socialist

10.01.2019

This is the story about when a nation state hacks into a company within another nation. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. And use promo code DARKNET25 to ...

Darknet Diaries episodes:

10.01.2019 Ep 48: Operation Socialist This is the story about when a nation state hacks into a company within another nation. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. And use promo code DARKNET25 to ...
09.17.2019 Ep 47: Project Raven This is the story about an ex-NSA agent who went to work for a secret hacking group in the UAE. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Their canaries attract malicious actors in your network and then send you ...
09.03.2019 Ep 46: XBox Underground (Part 2) This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed their luck a little too far. This is part 2 of a 2 part series. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. ...
08.20.2019 Ep 45: XBox Underground (Part 1) This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed the hacking a little too far. This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by Nord VPN. Visit ...
08.06.2019 Ep 44: Zain Ransomware is ugly. It infects your machine and locks all the the data and to unlock you have to pay a fee. In this episode we dive into some of the people behind it. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by ...
07.23.2019 Ep 43: PPP This is the story about how I acquired a black badge from DEFCON (pictured above). We also hear the story about who PPP is, and their CTF journey at DEFCON. This episode was sponsored by Nord VPN. Visit https://nordvpn.com/darknet and ...
07.09.2019 Ep 42: Mini-Stories: Vol 2 Three stories in one episode. Listen in on one of Dave Kennedy's penetration tests he conducted where he got caught trying to gain entry into a datacenter. Listen to a network security engineer talk about the unexpected visitor found in ...
06.25.2019 Ep 41: Just Visiting Join JekHyde and Carl on a physical penetration test, a social engineering engagagement, a red team assessment. Their mission is to get into a building they shouldn't be allowed, then plant a rogue computer they can use to hack into ...
06.11.2019 Ep 40: No Parking Take a ride with a red teamer. A physical penetration tester as he tries to make his away into unauthorized areas, steal sensitive documents, hack into the computers, and escape with company property. This episode was sponsored by CMD. Securing ...
05.28.2019 Ep 39: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter A talk at Defcon challenged people to find a way to destroy a hard drive. A young man was inspired by this challenge and was determined to find a way to destroy a hard drive. But this is not a ...
05.14.2019 Ep 38: Dark Caracal A journalist wrote articles critical of the Kazakhstan government. The government did not like this and attempted to silence her. But perhaps they went more than just that. Perhaps they tried to spy on her. The EFF investigated this case ...
04.30.2019 Ep 37: LVS 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 10 properties around the world. And the CEO and founder of LVS is Sheldon ...
04.16.2019 Ep 36: Jeremy from Marketing A company hires a penetration tester to pose as a new hire, Jeremy from Marketing, to see how much he can hack into in his first week on the job. It doesn't go as planned. Thanks to @TinkerSec for telling ...
04.02.2019 Ep 35: Carbanak ATM hacking. Hollywood has been fantasizing about this since the 1980's. But is this a thing now? A security researcher named Barnaby Jack investigated ATMs and found them to be vulnerable. Once he published his data the ATM hacking scene ...
03.19.2019 Ep 34: For Your Eyes Only Nude selfies. This episode is all about nude selfies. What happens if you take one and give it to a vengeful boyfriend. What happens when a hacker knows you have them and wants to steal them from your phone. What ...
03.05.2019 Ep 33: RockYou 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 changed the way we view account security even today. This episode was sponsored by ...
02.19.2019 Ep 32: The Carder 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 doing this? And where did he go wrong? Find out all this and more ...
02.05.2019 Ep 31: Hacker Giraffe 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 awareness of this problem, and got himself into a whole heap of trouble. For show ...
01.22.2019 Ep 30: Shamoon In 2012, Saudi Aramco was hit with the most destructive virus ever. Thousands and thousands of computers were destroyed. Herculean efforts were made to restore them to operational status again. But who would do such an attack? Very special thanks ...
01.08.2019 Ep 29: Stuxnet Stuxnet was the most sophisticated virus ever discovered. It's target was a nuclear enrichment facility in Iran. This virus was successfully able to destroy numerous centrifuges. Hear who did it and why. Special thanks to Kim Zetter for joining us ...
12.15.2018 Ep 28: Unit 8200 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 found by listening along to this episode. This episode was sponsored by ...
12.01.2018 Ep 27: Chartbreakers Something is wrong with the Apple Podcasts top charts. As a podcaster, this personally annoyed and intrigued me. I investigate how this is happening and who is behind it. For show notes visit https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/27. This episode was sponsored by Nord ...
11.15.2018 Ep 26: IRS 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. Hundreds of thousands of tax records were leaked. What happened and who ...
11.01.2018 Ep 25: Alberto 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 on whether he's guilty or not. Learn more about your ...
10.15.2018 Ep 24: Operation Bayonet Darknet markets are online black markets. They are highly illegal, and dangerous to run. Hear exactly how dangerous it was for Alphabay and Hansa dark markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
10.01.2018 Ep 23: Vladimir Levin When banks started coming online, they almost immediately started being targeted by hackers. Vladimir Levin was one of the first ever known hacker to try to rob a bank. He succeeded a little, and failed a lot. Vladimir would go ...
09.15.2018 Ep 22: Mini-Stories: Vol 1 Three stories in one! In this episode we hear about a penetration test from Mubix that he'll never forget, a incident response from Robert M. Lee which completely stunned him, and a social engineering mission from Snow. Podcast recommendation: Moonshot. ...
09.01.2018 Ep 21: Black Duck Eggs Ira Winkler's specialty is assembling elite teams of special forces and intelligence officers to go after companies. Ira shares a story about a time he and his team broke into a global 5 company. A company so large that theft ...
08.15.2018 Ep 20: mobman Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malware he wrote called SubSeven. Hacking changed mobman's life. Hear how it happened by listening to this episode. Image for this episode created by ...
08.01.2018 Ep 19: Aurora In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is the most popular website on the Internet. It’s so popular many people just think Google is the Internet. Google hires many of the most ...
07.01.2018 Ep 18: Jackpot A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts of money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
06.03.2018 Ep 17: Finn A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and ends up with more than he bargained for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
05.01.2018 Ep 16: Eijah In 2007, a hacker named Eijah got fed up with the way DRM prevented him from being able to play the content he paid for. He decided to fight back against the AACS and find a way to circumvent the ...
04.01.2018 Ep 15: Ill Tills A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear how digital forensics and incident responders handled the situation. What malware was found? Where was it found? How was it stopped? And most ...
03.01.2018 Ep 14: #OpJustina In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina. This enraged many people across the country, including members of anonymous. A DDOS attack was waged against the hospital. Learn more about your ...
02.15.2018 Ep 13: Carna Botnet In 2012 the Carna Bot was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn't have any intentions on doing anything malicious. It was built just to help us all understand the Internet better. This botnet used the oldest security ...
02.01.2018 Ep 12: Crypto Wars In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating what type of cryptography is allowed to be used online. A few brave people stood up to the government in the name of ...
01.15.2018 Ep 11: Strictly Confidential What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a hacker in their network? We hear the story from a digital forensics investigator which has a surprising result. Learn more about your ad ...
01.01.2018 Ep 10: Misadventures of a Nation State Actor In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes you on a ride with a nation state actor to see exactly how it's done. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.15.2017 Ep 9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
12.01.2017 Ep 8: Manfred (Part 2) Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time business. He exploited video games and sold virtual goods and currency for real money. This was his full time job. Listen to ...
12.01.2017 Ep 7: Manfred (Part 1) Manfred has had the most epic story of all online video game stories. For the last 20 years, he's been hacking online games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.15.2017 Ep 6: The Beirut Bank Job Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11.01.2017 Ep 5: #ASUSGATE Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with security vulnerabilties. He set out on a mission to resolve these vulnerabilities not only for his own router, but for thousands of others ...
10.15.2017 Ep 4: Panic! at the TalkTalk Board Room Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry customers calm and carry on. The UK government and Metropolitan Police investigate the breach. We get a rare glimpse of how the CEO ...
10.01.2017 Ep 3: DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye! The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role a CA plays, how browsers work with CAs, and what happens when a CA is breached. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
09.15.2017 Ep 2: The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker downloaded gigs of children's data. Discover what the hacker did once he took the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
09.01.2017 Ep 1: The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most Wanted list for PBX hacking. In this episode, we explain PBX hacking and how hackers are racking up billions of dollars in ...

Darknet Diaries

What's Darknet Diaries about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Darknet Diaries episodes:

Ep 48: Operation Socialist

Ep 47: Project Raven

Ep 46: XBox Underground (Part 2)

Ep 45: XBox Underground (Part 1)

Ep 44: Zain

Ep 43: PPP

Ep 42: Mini-Stories: Vol 2

Ep 41: Just Visiting

Ep 40: No Parking

Ep 39: 3 Alarm Lamp Scooter

Ep 38: Dark Caracal

Ep 37: LVS

Ep 36: Jeremy from Marketing

Ep 35: Carbanak

Ep 34: For Your Eyes Only

Ep 33: RockYou

Ep 32: The Carder

Ep 31: Hacker Giraffe

Ep 30: Shamoon

Ep 29: Stuxnet

Ep 28: Unit 8200

Ep 27: Chartbreakers

Ep 26: IRS

Ep 25: Alberto

Ep 24: Operation Bayonet

Ep 23: Vladimir Levin

Ep 22: Mini-Stories: Vol 1

Ep 21: Black Duck Eggs

Ep 20: mobman

Ep 19: Aurora

Ep 18: Jackpot

Ep 17: Finn

Ep 16: Eijah

Ep 15: Ill Tills

Ep 14: #OpJustina

Ep 13: Carna Botnet

Ep 12: Crypto Wars

Ep 11: Strictly Confidential

Ep 10: Misadventures of a Nation State Actor

Ep 9: The Rise and Fall of Mt. Gox

Ep 8: Manfred (Part 2)

Ep 7: Manfred (Part 1)

Ep 6: The Beirut Bank Job

Ep 5: #ASUSGATE

Ep 4: Panic! at the TalkTalk Board Room

Ep 3: DigiNotar, You are the Weakest Link, Good Bye!

Ep 2: The Peculiar Case of the VTech Hacker

Ep 1: The Phreaky World of PBX Hacking

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