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Darknet Diaries Explore true stories of the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a journey through the chilling world of hacking, data breaches, and cyber crime.
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- 179: The Courthouse – Revisited
by Jack Rhysider on September 1, 2026 at 7:00 amIn this episode we follow up with Gabby and Justin from Episode 59 – two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all […]
- LOW – Trailerby Jack Rhysider on August 6, 2026 at 7:00 am
After 8 years, LOW is finally here. A story about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up. Five episodes. Five descents. LOW is an audio journey into the unlit corners of human experience. […]
- 178: Ubiquitiby Jack Rhysider on August 4, 2026 at 7:00 am
Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn’t feel like he was being […]
- 177: National Public Databy Jack Rhysider on July 21, 2026 at 7:00 am
This is the story of the hacker known as “USDoD”. When he was young he had a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, […]
- 176: NSLby Jack Rhysider on July 7, 2026 at 7:00 am
One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this […]
- 175: Bayrobby Jack Rhysider on June 2, 2026 at 7:00 am
It started with a fake car listing on eBay.What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever […]
- 174: Pacific Rimby Jack Rhysider on May 5, 2026 at 7:00 am
For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to properly secure their firewalls.Was […]
- Weev, Part 1
by Ran Levi on November 27, 2024 at 11:48 amMuch like Aaron Swartz did, Andrew “weev” Auernheimer fought against the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – a law both men belived to be dangerous and unjust. But unlike Swartz, the internet’s own boy, […]
- Cuckoo Spear [B-Side]by Ran Levi on November 20, 2024 at 6:37 am
APT-10 is a Chinese nation-state threat actor that in recent years has been targeting Japanese IT & Instrastructure organizations using a sophisticated backdoor malware known as LODEINFO. […]
- The Man Who Went To War With Anonymous – And Lostby Ran Levi on November 13, 2024 at 10:42 am
Aaron Barr was en-signals intelligence officer specializing in analytics. As part of HBGary Federal, he came up with a plan to unmask the key leaders of Anonymous, the infamous hacker collective. […]
- What Can Organizations Learn from “Grim Beeper”? [B-Side]by Ran Levi on November 5, 2024 at 7:08 am
On 17 and 18 of September 2024, thousands of pagers and hand held radio devices used by Hezbollah, exploded simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria, killing at least 42 terrorists and wounding more […]
- The Fappening/Celebgateby Ran Levi on October 29, 2024 at 3:26 pm
Could thousands of people keep a secret? Common sense says no—secrets spread, and people talk. But for over a decade, from 2006 to 2017, a website managed to stay under law enforcement’s radar, […]
The Ransomware Files The Ransomware Files podcast tells the harrowing stories of technology experts who have fought back against ransomware, which is one of the greatest crime waves the internet has ever seen. It features in-the-trenches stories about how organisations recovered and frank human reflections from those who have faced file-encrypting malware, a potent weapon used by high-tech criminals.
- Thank You
by Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group on November 8, 2022 at 4:11 amAfter 13 episodes and one guest episode, The Ransomware Files project has come to a close. I want to thank everyone who participated and supported it. I wish this project had come to an end because […]
- Unproven Data Recovery
by Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group on October 7, 2022 at 7:20 amWhat if you were hired for an office job but ended up negotiating with cybercriminals? There aren’t many rules around the cybercrime known as ransomware, but this is a story about one rule that was […]
- The Adult Boutique
by Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group on September 15, 2022 at 11:41 pmDain Drake was CEO of United Structures of America, a steel fabrication facility outside of Houston. In June 2019, Dain found himself standing outside an adult boutique in Houston at 10 AM on a […]
- Guest Episode: The Storm
by Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group on August 26, 2022 at 12:46 amThe Ransomware Files is pleased to host a special guest episode from our friends at Hacked. In mid-April, there was a ransomware attack. It wasn’t against a small business. It wasn’t directed at […]
- Dr. Ransomware, Part 2
by Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group on August 5, 2022 at 12:42 amIs a practicing cardiologist living in Venezuela also a ransomware mastermind? If U.S. prosecutors are to be believed, Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez is a cybercriminal polymath. He’s on the FBI’s […]