Episodes

EP	Title	Date	Categories	Entities	Claims
126	REvil The episode examines the REvil ransomware operation, its origins in GandCrab, ransomware-as-a-service model, major attacks including Kaseya, and the law-enforcement actions that …	18 October 2022	cybercrime, bitcoin	61	34
127	Maddie Maddie Stone discusses Android malware analysis, reverse engineering, actively exploited zero-days, Google Project Zero, Pegasus, and efforts to make exploit development harder.	01 November 2022	bug hunter, research	48	22
128	Gollumfun (Part 1) Brett Johnson describes his progression from offline fraud into online scams, identity crime, carding, tax-refund fraud, and administration of the criminal forums …	15 November 2022	black hat, cybercrime, dark web, carding	32	22
129	Gollumfun (Part 2) Jack Rhysider interviews Brett Johnson about online fraud, ShadowCrew, his work as a Secret Service informant, underground criminal forums, and later cybercrime-related …	29 November 2022	black hat, cybercrime, dark web, carding	38	24
130	Jason's Pen Test Jason Haddix describes his transition from underground activity on ShadowCrew to professional penetration testing, including physical, network, web, and mobile application assessments.	13 December 2022	black hat, cybercrime, dark web, carding	35	22
131	Welcome To Video The episode examines the Welcome to Video dark-web market and how cryptocurrency tracing, exchange records, server evidence, and international law enforcement cooperation …	27 December 2022	cybercrime, dark web, bitcoin	44	23
132	Sam the Vendor Sam Bent describes his involvement with darknet marketplaces, online vending, operational security practices, Dread, the Hansa takedown, and his federal prosecution.	04 April 2023	cybercrime, dark web, bitcoin	34	18
133	I'm the Real Connor The episode features Connor Tumbleson's account of having his identity, résumé, GitHub history, and other professional information used to create fake freelance …	02 May 2023	cybercrime	31	19
134	Deviant The episode features physical penetration specialist Deviant Ollam discussing physical security assessments, lock and door bypasses, social engineering, access-control weaknesses, reconnaissance, and …	06 June 2023	social engineering, penetration test	45	22
135	The D.R. Incident The episode describes a coordinated 2022 cyber campaign affecting Dominican Republic government agencies, critical infrastructure, and a bank, involving Bandook, Dark Caracal, …	04 July 2023	advanced persistent threat, cybercrime, incident response	35	21
136	Team Xecuter The episode traces the history of video-game console modification, piracy circumvention, and Team Xecuter, including Gary Bowser’s role in public relations and …	01 August 2023	cybercrime	58	27
137	Predator The episode examines the commercial and mercenary spyware ecosystem around Predator, Cytrox, Intellexa, and Tal Dilian, including its use against journalists and …	05 September 2023	mercenary	43	27
138	The Mimics of Punjab The episode examines family-impersonation scams targeting Punjabi communities, including social engineering, caller-information gathering, payment fraud, and emerging AI voice cloning. It also …	03 October 2023	cybercrime	30	17
139	D3f4ult The episode features Default describing his progression from gaming and IRC hacking into Anonymous-associated groups, politically motivated attacks, botnet-enabled intrusions, social-engineering attacks …	07 November 2023	cybercrime, black hat, hacktivism, social engineering	54	33
140	Revenge Bytes The episode covers prolonged online harassment involving stolen or reconstructed intimate images, investigation across 4chan and Kik, civil subpoenas, law-enforcement involvement, and …	05 December 2023	cybercrime	30	19
141	The Pig Butcher The episode examines pig-butchering romance and cryptocurrency scams, business email compromise, Nigerian fraud networks, Black Axe, Scattered Canary, and pandemic-relief fraud.	02 January 2024	cybercrime	52	20
142	Axact The episode examines Axact, a Pakistani company described as operating a large fake-university and fake-credential scheme, including credential harvesting, social engineering, extortion, …	06 February 2024	cybercrime	40	27
143	Jim Hates Scams Jim Browning describes scambaiting, remote-access abuse, gift-card and refund scams, and investigations into scam call centers using compromised systems, CCTV, recorded calls, …	05 March 2024	cybercrime	47	19
144	Rachel Rachel Tobac describes social-engineering penetration tests involving customer-support manipulation, phone-number spoofing, open-source intelligence, fabricated online personas, hiring-process attacks, and AI-generated voice impersonation.	02 April 2024	penetration test, social engineering	40	17
145	Shannen The episode concerns Shannen Rossmiller’s online counter-terrorism investigations, use of personas and proxies, Operation Whirlpool keylogging, and her involvement in the Ryan …	07 May 2024	hacktivism, social engineering	28	17
146	ANOM Joseph Cox discusses Anom, an encrypted-phone platform secretly operated with FBI involvement to collect users’ messages, and the resulting Operation Trojan Shield …	04 June 2024	cybercrime, advanced persistent threat	48	31
147	Tornado The episode examines the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge theft, alleged North Korean involvement, Tornado Cash, cryptocurrency privacy, sanctions, and the legal status …	02 July 2024	cybercrime, advanced persistent threat, social engineering, policy/law	32	30
148	Dubsnatch The episode describes unauthorized access, credential reuse, shared-link persistence, and exfiltration of unreleased music and confidential business data from artists, managers, labels, …	06 August 2024	black hat, cybercrime	44	22
149	Mini-Stories: Vol 3 The episode contains stories about EvilMog’s military communications work in Afghanistan and Joe Sarkisian’s penetration-testing engagements involving credential capture, password cracking, network …	03 September 2024	incident response, penetration test	41	27
150	mobman 2 Jack Rhysider revisits the disputed authorship of Sub7, interviewing the Romanian creator known as Mobman, Greg, and Ill Will’s research into the …	01 October 2024	investigative	32	16