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pcTattletale founder catches chargers for "catch a cheater app"

Monitoring software is everywhere. Parents use it, employers use it, and it's completely legal to buy. So why is Bryan Fleming facing 15 years in federal prison for selling it? Today we break down the pcTattletale case, the legal line between legitimate monitoring and criminal surveillance, and what happens when a company that sold "100% undetectable" spyware gets hacked itself. 138,000 customers. 300 million screenshots. And one guilty plea that just changed the stalkerware industry.

Breach after Breach after Breach

Another data breach headline you scrolled past. We get it. But that numbness is exactly what cybercriminals are counting on. In this episode, we unpack the breach landscape and give you a practical framework for deciding when to panic and when to shrug. Plus: what actually happens when your data hits the dark web, and the one action that stops most identity theft cold.

Two cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin, just pleaded guilty to launching the exact ransomware attacks they were hired to stop. One was an incident response manager at Sygnia. The other was a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint. Together with a third accomplice, they attacked five U.S. companies using off the shelf malware.

The Rapper and the Hacker

A few weeks ago, the guy behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack walked out of prison after serving just 14 months. His wife, who helped launder the money while building a rap career as "Razzlekhan," served eight months. In this episode, we break down how he actually pulled off the hack, why the security architecture failed, and how law enforcement finally caught them five and a half years later.

The billionaire scam kingpin is finally in custody. On January 6th, Cambodian authorities arrested Chen Zhi. By January 7th, he was on a plane to Beijing in handcuffs.

Meanwhile, the scam compounds in Cambodia keep running.

This is the update on Chen Zhi.

The UK government issued a secret order demanding backdoor access to any iPhone user's encrypted data. Apple's response was to disable the security feature for the entire country. Here's why that matters for everyone.

Europol calls it Violence as a Service. You pay, someone else throws the grenade. And the person throwing it is probably 16.

Operation GRIMM just swept up 193 people across eleven countries. But the arrests aren't the story. The story is the online black market that's recruiting teenagers through Discord servers and gaming chats to carry out bombings, shootings, and contract killings. Recruiters building trust for months. Small jobs that turn into big ones. By the time these kids realize what they signed up for, they're in too deep to walk away.

The Netherlands saw over 1,500 explosive attacks last year. Police are finding bombs stored under teenagers' beds. And Europol says minors are now involved in 70 percent of organized criminal markets.

This episode breaks down how the machine works.

In 2025, North Korea's state-sponsored hackers shattered their own previous record by stealing over $2 billion in cryptocurrency in a single year. In one hack they stole $1.5 billion from Bybit. It was the largest crypto hack in history. We break down how a country thats been cut off and ostracized by many countries, has built a cyber program on par with G7 nations.

Someone stole $400,000 worth of lobster meat bound for Costco. No weapons. No violence. No high-speed chase. Just a spoofed email, a fake website, a fake driver's license, and a truck. The seafood bandits drove off in broad daylight.

He was the DEA's chief spokesman, a boring government PR job. But after leaving, Garrison Courtney reinvented himself as something far more exciting: a covert CIA operative running classified missions in Africa. For four years, he convinced defense contractors to put him on their payroll as "commercial cover," promised them lucrative government contracts that would never come, and duped real intelligence officials into vouching for him. He held meetings inside actual classified facilities, made people surrender their phones, and threatened anyone who questioned him with arrest for "leaking classified information." When the FBI finally closed in, the people he scammed actually stonewalled investigators—convinced they'd be betraying national security by talking. His $4.4 million fraud earned him seven years in federal prison. This is the story of how one man weaponized Washington's obsession with secrecy to pull off one of the most audacious cons in recent memory.