Episodes

EP	Title	Date	Categories	Entities	Claims
51	The Indo-Pak Conflict The episode describes cyber retaliation between Indian and Pakistani hackers during heightened conflict over Kashmir, including website defacements, DDoS attacks, data exposure, …	12 November 2019	hacktivism, black hat	35	25
52	Magecart The episode examines online credit-card skimming, the Magecart threat-actor ecosystem, supply-chain compromises, the British Airways and Newegg incidents, and defensive techniques for …	26 November 2019	cybercrime	43	14
53	Shadow Brokers The episode examines the Shadow Brokers’ releases of alleged NSA and TAO cyber-weapons, including EternalBlue, and discusses their impact on incident response, …	10 December 2019	advanced persistent threat	46	16
54	NotPetya The episode examines the 2017 NotPetya destructive worm, its propagation through MeDoc, the use of Mimikatz and EternalBlue, its global impact, and …	24 December 2019	advanced persistent threat	40	23
55	NoirNet A penetration-testing story involving physical social engineering, badge replay, a planted Raspberry Pi, and wireless credential capture using Eaphammer.	25 December 2019	penetration test, social engineering	26	11
56	Jordan Jordan Harbinger describes his teenage involvement with bulletin board systems, phreaking, cell-phone cloning, online fraud, and assisting the FBI by identifying suspected …	07 January 2020	social engineering	27	20
57	MS08-067 The episode covers Microsoft’s discovery and emergency patching of the MS08-067 Windows vulnerability, its later exploitation by Conficker, and the role of …	21 January 2020	incident response	44	24
58	OxyMonster The episode describes the identification and prosecution of Gal Vallerius, known as OxyMonster, through darknet-market activity and Bitcoin tracing, along with law-enforcement …	04 February 2020	dark web, cybercrime, bitcoin	49	29
59	The Courthouse Justin Wynn and Gary De Mercurio describe physical penetration tests for Coalfire, including the Iowa courthouse engagement that led to their arrest …	18 February 2020	penetration test, social engineering	36	17
60	dawgyg The episode features Tommy DeVoss, known online as dawgyg, describing his progression from illegal hacking and federal imprisonment to earning substantial income …	03 March 2020	bug hunter, black hat	41	21
61	Samy Samy Kamkar describes his early game-cheat development, the self-propagating MySpace worm, his prosecution, and later security research involving payment cards, side channels, …	17 March 2020	black hat, research	44	32
62	Cam The episode follows Cam, a teenage gamer who progressed from using LOIC against online opponents to DDoS attacks associated with animal-rights hacktivism, …	31 March 2020	black hat, hacktivism, botnet	50	25
63	w0rmer The episode features Higinio “Hig” Ochoa, known online as w0rmer, describing his involvement with Anonymous and CabinCr3w, Operation Pig Roast, SQL-injection attacks …	14 April 2020	black hat, hacktivism	41	26
64	The Athens Shadow Games The episode examines the 2004–2005 Vodafone Greece wiretapping affair, involving covert malware on Ericsson AXE telephone switches, abuse of lawful-intercept functionality, targeted …	28 April 2020	advanced persistent threat	52	24
65	PSYOP The episode examines psychological operations, military information campaigns, propaganda, threat intelligence, hacker communities, online influence operations, and algorithmic persuasion.	12 May 2020	advanced persistent threat, investigative	61	25
66	Freakyclown FC, also known as Freaky Clown, describes authorized physical and digital penetration tests involving banks, hospitals, and a government facility, as well …	26 May 2020	penetration test, social engineering	26	16
67	The Big House John Strand describes physical and network penetration tests, including unauthorized-access simulations at a military base, office, and prison, as well as an …	09 June 2020	penetration test, social engineering	25	17
68	Triton The episode examines an intrusion targeting Triconex safety controllers at a Saudi Arabian petrochemical plant, the Triton/TRISIS malware, the incident response investigation, …	23 June 2020	advanced persistent threat	40	19
69	Human Hacker An interview with Christopher Hadnagy about social engineering, phishing assessments, physical penetration testing, OSINT, and human-focused security failures.	07 July 2020	penetration test, social engineering	32	18
70	Ghost Exodus The episode features Jesse McGraw, known online as Ghost Exodus, describing his involvement in the Electronik Tribulation Army, the compromise of computers …	21 July 2020	black hat, botnet, hacktivism	34	23
71	Information Monopoly The episode examines North Korea’s information controls and the use of removable storage and human networks to move outside information into the …	04 August 2020	advanced persistent threat	35	17
72	Bangladesh Bank Heist The episode describes the 2016 cyber-heist targeting Bangladesh Bank, the use of phishing and malware to access SWIFT terminals, the attempted transfer …	18 August 2020	advanced persistent threat, cybercrime	41	29
73	WannaCry The episode examines the 2017 WannaCry ransomware outbreak, its use of EternalBlue against SMB, the kill-switch domain registrations that curtailed later variants, …	01 September 2020	advanced persistent threat, cybercrime, incident response	58	27
74	Mikko The episode covers attacks against high-stakes online poker players, Mikko Hyppönen’s malware research career, historical PC viruses, email worms, botnets, and the …	15 September 2020	botnet, research, cybercrime, incident response	45	12
75	Compromised Comms The episode examines the compromise of covert CIA communication websites used to contact sources in Iran and elsewhere, and the resulting arrests …	29 September 2020	advanced persistent threat	40	22