179 episodes from the official Darknet Diaries catalog.
| EP | Title | Date | Categories | Entities | Claims |
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| 101 |
Lotería
An anonymized former Marine and cybersecurity consultant describes investigating fraud in Puerto Rico’s lottery system, using authorized physical and network penetration testing, …
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28 September 2021 | cybercrime | 43 | 26 |
| 102 |
Money Maker
The episode features Frank Bourassa describing his large-scale counterfeiting operation, the printing equipment and security features involved, Project Cranium, his arrest and …
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12 October 2021 | cybercrime | 29 | 17 |
| 103 |
Cloud Hopper
The episode describes an MSP-compromise campaign attributed in later US indictments to APT10, involving credential theft, DLL side-loading, PlugX, and attempts to …
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26 October 2021 | cybercrime, incident response | 54 | 35 |
| 104 |
Arya
Arya Ebrahami describes operating fake-ID websites and vendor accounts on darknet marketplaces, moderating Nucleus and AlphaBay, handling cryptocurrency, and later cooperating with …
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09 November 2021 | dark web | 34 | 28 |
| 105 |
Secret Cells
The episode examines encrypted-phone companies used by criminals and the increasingly aggressive law-enforcement operations used to infiltrate their devices, servers, and communications.
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23 November 2021 | cybercrime | 33 | 24 |
| 106 |
@Tennessee
The episode examines coordinated harassment, SIM-swapping, account-targeting, and swatting campaigns aimed at people with desirable Twitter and Instagram usernames, including incidents involving …
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07 December 2021 | cybercrime | 31 | 28 |
| 107 |
Alethe
The episode follows Alethe Denis’s development as a social engineer, including her participation in DEF CON’s Social Engineering Capture the Flag contest …
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21 December 2021 | social engineering | 37 | 23 |
| 108 |
Marq
The episode covers unauthorized access by former employees, sale of stolen customer data, the Ring credential exposure, and insider-threat prevention.
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11 January 2022 | black hat, dark web | 44 | 23 |
| 109 |
TeaMp0isoN
The episode features MLT describing his teenage involvement with TeaMp0isoN, its hacking activities, the later radicalisation and ISIS affiliation of TriCk/Junaid Hussain, …
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25 January 2022 | black hat, hacktivism | 62 | 36 |
| 110 |
Spam Botnets
The episode describes the criminal ecosystem linking rogue online pharmacies, affiliate programs, spam operations, and large botnets, with emphasis on Cutwail, Rustock, …
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08 February 2022 | cybercrime, botnet | 63 | 31 |
| 111 |
ZeuS
The episode traces the development and criminal use of the ZeuS banking-malware ecosystem, including its crimeware-kit business, botnets, Gameover ZeuS, SpyEye, CryptoLocker, …
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22 February 2022 | cybercrime, botnet | 45 | 26 |
| 112 |
Dirty Coms
Jack Rhysider interviews Drew about online criminal communities involving Roblox fraud, phishing, account trading, SIM-swapping, credential theft, cryptocurrency theft, and NFT scams.
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08 March 2022 | cybercrime, botnet, black hat, bitcoin | 55 | 25 |
| 113 |
Adam
Adam Georgeson describes exploiting retained administrative access to a former school and later employer, moving through their networks, wiping infrastructure and connected …
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21 March 2022 | cybercrime, black hat | 33 | 29 |
| 114 |
HD
Interview with HD Moore covering his early phone-system exploration, professional penetration testing, creation and evolution of Metasploit, exploit disclosure, Meterpreter, legal concerns …
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05 April 2022 | research, penetration test, bug hunter | 44 | 25 |
| 115 |
Player Cheater Developer Spy
The episode examines the commercial video-game cheat industry, anti-cheat operations, malware disguised as cheats, attacks between cheat developers and game studios, and …
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19 April 2022 | cybercrime | 60 | 20 |
| 116 |
Mad Dog
The episode features CIA case officer Jim Lawler discussing espionage, human intelligence collection, recruitment, covert communications, insider access, and the CIA’s efforts …
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03 May 2022 | advanced persistent threat, social engineering | 46 | 27 |
| 117 |
Daniel the Paladin
The episode features Daniel Kelley describing his progression from gaming-related DDoS activity and website intrusions to criminal hacking and extortion, followed by …
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17 May 2022 | black hat, cybercrime, botnet | 41 | 27 |
| 118 |
Hot Swaps
The episode features Joseph Harris describing account takeovers, cryptocurrency theft, SIM-swapping, abuse of email and carrier vulnerabilities, and the Crowd Machine cryptocurrency …
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31 May 2022 | black hat, cybercrime, social engineering | 36 | 21 |
| 119 |
Hot Wallets
The episode examines cryptocurrency thefts and laundering attributed or potentially attributed to the Lazarus Group, including attacks on NiceHash, Coincheck, KuCoin, and …
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14 June 2022 | cybercrime, advanced persistent threat, bitcoin | 44 | 29 |
| 120 |
Voulnet
The episode features Kuwaiti cybersecurity researcher Mohammed Aldoub, known online as Voulnet, and his legal ordeal after publicly analysing suspected banking malware …
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28 June 2022 | research, cybercrime | 34 | 13 |
| 121 |
Ed
Jack Rhysider interviews Ed Skoudis about penetration testing, medical-device security, connected toys, replay vulnerabilities, and the real-world safety implications of cybersecurity work. …
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26 July 2022 | penetration test, cons | 43 | 19 |
| 122 |
Lisa
Lisa Forte discusses maritime piracy, cyber-crisis preparation, insider threats, social engineering through LinkedIn and Facebook, and the need to detect and respond …
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23 August 2022 | social engineering, incident response | 33 | 16 |
| 123 |
Newswires
The episode describes a multi-year scheme in which hackers compromised Marketwire, PR Newswire, and Business Wire to steal unreleased corporate press releases, …
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06 September 2022 | cybercrime | 45 | 24 |
| 124 |
Synthetic Remittance
The episode describes Evaldas Rimasauskas’s Business E-mail Compromise scheme, in which fraudulent Quanta Computer invoices and lookalike domains redirected payments from Facebook …
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20 September 2022 | cybercrime | 32 | 18 |
| 125 |
Jeremiah
Jeremiah Roe describes a physical and network penetration test of a government contractor’s satellite office, including physical access bypasses, kiosk takeover, Ethernet …
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04 October 2022 | penetration test, social engineering | 30 | 20 |