Episodes

179 episodes from the official Darknet Diaries catalog.

EP Title Date Categories Entities Claims
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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, …
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, …
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, …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
04 October 2022 penetration test, social engineering 30 20