Episodes

EP	Title	Date	Categories	Entities	Claims
151	Chris Rock Chris Rock discusses offensive security work, mercenary hacking engagements, compromise of investment firms and banks, and research into weaknesses in online death …	05 November 2024	black hat, cybercrime, penetration test, incident response, mercenary	36	23
152	Stacc Attack The episode examines Jarett Dunn’s exploitation of Pump.fun’s token-graduation process, which redirected Solana liquidity to random addresses, alongside his earlier disruption of …	03 December 2024	black hat, cybercrime, bitcoin	31	20
153	Bike Index The episode describes Bike Index, a nonprofit stolen-bicycle registry, and Bryan Hance’s open-source investigation into a cross-border network selling stolen bicycles through …	07 January 2025	cybercrime, research	32	15
154	Hijacked Line The episode features Conor Freeman describing his progression from Minecraft account abuse and online scams to OG username theft and cryptocurrency SIM-swap …	04 February 2025	cybercrime, black hat, bitcoin	46	26
155	Kingpin An interview with hardware hacker Joe Grand covering his early phone phreaking activities, Renegade Legion, L0pht, responsible disclosure, DefCon electronic badges, engineering …	04 March 2025	research, cybercrime	41	25
156	Kill List Chris Monteiro investigates Besa Mafia, a darknet murder-for-hire scam, discovers exposed private messages and kill orders, and works with journalist Carl Miller …	18 March 2025	bitcoin, dark web	38	14
157	Grifter Jack Rhysider interviews Grifter, also identified as Neil Wyler, about his early hacking experiences, long involvement with DEF CON and Black Hat, …	01 April 2025	black hat, cons, cybercrime	45	23
158	MalwareTech The episode features Marcus Hutchins, known online as MalwareTech, discussing his analysis of WannaCry, the accidental activation of its kill switch, and …	06 May 2025	black hat, botnet, cons, cybercrime	30	20
159	Vastaamo The episode discusses the 2020 Vastaamo psychotherapy-centre breach, the extortion of the company and its patients, the investigation into Ransom Man, and …	03 June 2025	black hat, cybercrime	37	27
160	Greg Greg Linares describes his early work writing malware, discovering vulnerabilities, conducting vulnerability research at eEye, and later performing red-team and physical penetration …	01 July 2025	penetration test	47	27
161	MG Jack Rhysider interviews MG about hardware hacking, malicious USB devices, the O.MG cable, manufacturing, authorized red-team operations, and the ethical and legal …	15 July 2025	penetration test, social engineering	33	21
162	Hieu Hieu Minh Ngo describes hacking e-commerce sites, obtaining and reselling payment-card and U.S. identity data through data brokers, his prosecution under the …	05 August 2025	black hat, cybercrime, dark web, carding	40	20
163	Ola The episode features Ola Bini, a Swedish programmer and privacy advocate who describes his arrest and prolonged prosecution in Ecuador, the seizure …	02 September 2025	black hat, policy/law	55	25
164	Oak Cliff Swipers The episode features Nathan Michael describing a long-running credit-card skimming, carding, counterfeit-card, and retail-fraud operation associated with the Oak Cliff Swipers, along …	07 October 2025	black hat, cybercrime, carding	39	31
165	Tanya Tanya Janca discusses application security, SQL injection, blind SQL injection, incident response, help-desk evidence handling, CTFs, and building secure-coding programs.	04 November 2025	penetration test, incident response	31	16
166	Maxie Maxie Reynolds describes physical penetration testing, network testing, social engineering, an accidental city water shutdown during an assessment, and her work developing …	02 December 2025	penetration test, incident response	25	19
167	Threatlocker The episode describes ransomware incidents affecting a manufacturing company and a hospital, and discusses ThreatLocker’s deny-by-default application control and zero-trust approach.	23 December 2025	incident response	30	19
168	LoD The episode traces early phreaking and hacker culture, the Legion of Doom, telephone-system exploration, early hacker publications, and the development of U.S. …	06 January 2026	cybercrime	70	21
169	MoD The episode traces the formation of Masters of Deception, its conflict with the Legion of Doom, the resulting investigations and prosecutions, and …	20 January 2026	cybercrime	59	29
170	Phrack The episode examines the history, influence, technical articles, staff transitions, and community-driven revival of Phrack magazine from 1985 through its fortieth anniversary.	03 February 2026	research	42	27
171	Melody Fraud The episode examines manipulation of social-media and streaming algorithms, music-stream fraud, account takeovers, bot networks, and the use of streaming platforms to …	03 March 2026	research, cybercrime	47	17
172	SuperBox The episode examines malicious Android streaming devices, especially SuperBox devices, their network behavior, distribution and marketing, the BadBox botnet, and the risks …	07 April 2026	advanced persistent threat, cybercrime	46	27
173	Tarjeteros The episode describes Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena and a Yonkers crew who participated in coordinated ATM cash-outs using cloned prepaid debit cards, as …	21 April 2026	cybercrime, carding	29	21
174	Pacific Rim The episode examines a long-running campaign targeting Sophos and other firewall vendors, including the Asnarok and Baja attacks, exploitation of multiple zero-days, …	05 May 2026	advanced persistent threat, research, incident response, botnet	47	32
175	Bayrob The episode examines the Bayrob malware operation, its fraud against eBay users, extensive proxy and encryption infrastructure, and the long FBI investigation …	02 June 2026	cybercrime, incident response, botnet	45	30