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Darknet Diaries

Explore true stories of the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a j

Episodes

Total: 160

Ep 20: mobman

2018/8/15

Chances are, if you were downloading shady programs in the early 2000's, you were infected with malw

Ep 19: Operation Aurora

2018/8/1

In 2009, around Christmas time, something terrible was lurking in the network at Google. Google is t

Ep 18: Jackpot

2018/7/1

A man addicted to gambling finds a bug in a video poker machine that lets him win excessive amounts

Ep 17: Finn

2018/6/3

A 14-year-old kid who finds himself bored in class decides to hack someone's twitter account and end

Ep 16: Eijah

2018/5/1

In 2007, a hacker named Eijah got fed up with the way DRM prevented him from being able to play the

Ep 15: Ill Tills

2018/4/1

A major retailer was hacked. Their point of sales machines were riddled with malware. Listen to hear

Ep 14: #OpJustina

2018/3/1

In 2013 a hospital was accused of conducting a medical kidnapping against a young girl name Justina.

Ep 13: Carna Botnet

2018/2/15

In 2012 the Carna Bot was built and unleashed on the world. But it didn't have any intentions on doi

Ep 12: Crypto Wars

2018/2/1

In the 1990's the Internet started to take shape. But the US goverment had strict laws regulating wh

What happens when an innovative tech company, that's trying to develop the next big thing, detects a

In today's world of intelligence gathering, governments hack other governments. This episode takes y

Mt. Gox was the largest bitcoin exchange in the world. It suddenly went offline. What happened?

Ep 8: Manfred (Part 2)

2017/12/1

Manfred found a way to turn his passion for video games and reverse engineering into a full time bus

Ep 7: Manfred (Part 1)

2017/12/1

Manfred has had the most epic story of all online video game stories. For the last 20 years, he's be

Ep 6: The Beirut Bank Job

2017/11/15

Jayson E. Street tells us a story about the time he broke into a bank in Beirut Lebanon.

Ep 5: #ASUSGATE

2017/11/1

Security researcher Kyle Lovett bought a new Asus router in 2013. He found it was riddled with secur

Mobile provider TalkTalk suffered a major breach in 2015. The CEO tried her best to keep angry custo

The 2011 DigiNotar breach changed the way browsers do security. In this episode, we learn what role

VTech makes toy tablets, laptops, and watches for kids. In 2015, they were breached. The hacker down

Farhan Arshad and Noor Aziz Uddin were captured 2 years after being placed on the FBI's Cyber's Most