Episodes

EP	Title	Date	Categories	Entities	Claims
76	Knaves Out The episode examines the 2014 JPMorgan Chase breach and related intrusions into financial institutions, linking the stolen customer data to an international …	13 October 2020	cybercrime	48	29
77	Olympic Destroyer The episode examines the 2018 cyberattack against the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Olympic Destroyer malware, its deceptive forensic clues, and the attribution …	27 October 2020	advanced persistent threat	44	21
78	Nerdcore The episode profiles cybersecurity-focused nerdcore musicians and discusses their early hacking activities, penetration testing, red teaming, malware analysis, cloud security, and security-related …	10 November 2020	cybercrime, black hat, hacktivism, penetration test	70	43
79	Dark Basin The episode examines the Dark Basin hack-for-hire operation, Citizen Lab’s investigation of its phishing infrastructure and targets, and links to BellTroX InfoTech …	24 November 2020	mercenary	35	17
80	The Whistleblower The episode describes corporate-intelligence contractors using open-source intelligence, surveillance, and social engineering to identify and cultivate corporate whistleblowers for potential SEC and …	08 December 2020	social engineering	32	20
81	The Vendor The episode documents a former darknet-market vendor’s use of Tor, Bitcoin, PGP, Tails, AlphaBay, and related operational-security practices, as well as his …	22 December 2020	dark web	32	16
82	Master of Pwn The episode covers the Zero Day Initiative, the history and operation of Pwn2Own, exploit research demonstrated at the contest, and the 2020 …	05 January 2021	cons	52	23
83	NSA Cryptologists The episode features Marcus J. Carey and Jeff Man discussing their NSA-related careers, cryptography, defensive security, cyber ranges, NSA red-team work, and …	19 January 2021	advanced persistent threat	57	30
84	Jet-setters The episode presents a boarding-pass privacy disclosure involving Alex and Tony Abbott, followed by TProphet's legal and illegal airline-points and travel-hacking examples.	02 February 2021	research	38	22
85	Cam the Carder The episode documents Cameron Harrison’s progression from making counterfeit IDs to carding, phishing, ATM cash-outs, payment-card theft from small businesses, and participation …	16 February 2021	black hat, carding, cybercrime	37	31
86	The LinkedIn Incident The episode describes the 2012 compromise of LinkedIn and subsequent intrusions involving Dropbox and Formspring, the investigation that identified Yevgeniy Nikulin, and …	02 March 2021	incident response, cybercrime	56	25
87	Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers The episode covers the 2016 compromise of Donald Trump’s Twitter account by the Guild of the Grumpy Old Hackers, who reused a …	16 March 2021	research	42	26
88	Victor The episode features Victor, a prolific responsible-disclosure researcher, and discusses his vulnerability-reporting organisations, internet-wide scanning practices, and his 2020 discovery that Donald …	30 March 2021	research	28	28
89	Cybereason: Molerats in the Cloud The episode features Cybereason CEO Lior Div and threat researcher Assaf Dahan discussing Unit 8200, cyber operations, Cybereason’s Malop detection approach, and …	06 April 2021	research	39	28
90	Jenny Episode featuring Jenny Radcliffe, a social engineer and physical penetration tester, describing authorized physical intrusions, open-source intelligence, pretexting, phishing, tailgating, and security-audit …	13 April 2021	penetration test, social engineering	24	16
91	webjedi Amélie Koran describes investigating a major World Bank network intrusion, a related internal information leak, and subsequent security improvements. The episode also …	27 April 2021	incident response	51	27
92	The Pirate Bay The episode examines The Pirate Bay, its BitTorrent indexing service, legal battles, infrastructure takedowns, censorship measures, network attacks, and resilience techniques.	11 May 2021	incident response, cybercrime	44	23
93	Kik The episode examines Kik’s anonymous chat platform, its modified Android clients and protocol-level abuse, moderation failures, child sexual abuse material, and related …	25 May 2021	hacktivism, cybercrime, investigative	50	27
94	Mariposa Botnet Chris Davis describes tracking Curador, investigating and disrupting the Mariposa botnet, and later identifying another botnet affecting French critical infrastructure.	08 June 2021	incident response, botnet, cybercrime	57	23
95	Jon & Brian's Big Adventure Brian Halbach and Jonathan Studebaker describe a covert physical penetration test involving reconnaissance, badge-cloning attempts, facility entry, surveillance evasion, and testing of …	22 June 2021	penetration test, social engineering	33	25
96	The Police Station Incident The episode describes a ransomware and unauthorized-access incident affecting a police department, including exposed Remote Desktop access, shared administrator credentials, phishing-based compromise …	05 July 2021	cybercrime, incident response	31	18
97	The Pizza Problem Miles describes repeated SIM-swapping, account compromise, threats, and targeted pizza-order harassment intended to force him to surrender valuable social-media handles.	20 July 2021	cybercrime	28	19
98	Zero Day Brokers Nicole Perlroth discusses the zero-day exploit market, government acquisition and use of offensive cyber capabilities, the historical development of US exploitation programs, …	03 August 2021	advanced persistent threat	51	21
99	The Spy The episode documents surveillance and social-engineering operations attributed to Black Cube, including targeting journalists and Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton. It also …	17 August 2021	advanced persistent threat	33	25
100	NSO The episode examines NSO Group’s Pegasus mobile spyware, its exploit chains, investigations by Citizen Lab and other researchers, alleged misuse by governments, …	31 August 2021	advanced persistent threat	55	25