Darknet Diaries

True stories of hacking, data breaches and cybercrime AI summary

Jack Rhysider Visit website › Technology · EN · 183 episodes · latest 2026-11-03

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Explore true stories of the dark side of the Internet with host Jack Rhysider as he takes you on a journey through the chilling world of hacking, data breaches, and cyber crime. ¿Hablas español? Escucha en español aquí ➔ https://darknetdiaries.com/es/

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  1. 2026-11-03 · 39 min · Season 1, episode 182

    What if you got infected by a friend who wanted to spy on you? This is the story of how BlackShades spread to more than half a million machines, and 97 people got arrested. Sponsors Support for this show comes from…

  2. 2026-10-20 · 1 hr 20 min · Season 1, episode 181

    Imagine driving down the road and your phone loses signal. Not just a lost signal, but it starts displaying SOS. Meaning no service configured at all. You can't make any calls, no data, no service. What goes through…

  3. 2026-10-06 · 59 min · Season 1, episode 180

    The word Conti struck fear in IT departments across the world. It's a type of ransomware that you hope to never come across. Like most ransomware gangs, the Conti group fell apart. But what's special about this story is…

  4. 2026-09-22 · 4 min

    After 8 years, LOW is finally here. A story about the weight of being and the wreckage of waking up. Five episodes. Five descents. LOW is an audio journey into the unlit corners of human experience. Choices we made in…

  5. 2026-09-01 · 1 hr 35 min · Season 1, episode 179

    In this episode we follow up with Gabby and Justin from Episode 59 - two seasoned penetration testers who tell us a story about the time when they tried to break into a courthouse but it went all wrong, and what…

  6. 2026-08-04 · 36 min · Season 1, episode 178

    Nickolas Sharp worked for Ubiquiti, a company that makes networking equipment. He noticed that there were some security problems at work. He tried to point them out, but didn't feel like he was being listened to enough.…

  7. 2026-07-21 · 48 min · Season 1, episode 177

    This is the story of the hacker known as "USDoD". When he was young he had a vengeance on the US, and this lead him down a road of continual data breaches, until he hacked into National Public Data, which is when his…

  8. 2026-07-07 · 1 hr 6 min · Season 1, episode 176

    One day Nick got a visit from the FBI demanding he give them data on one of his customers. They asked for it in the form of a National Security Letter or NSL. Something wasn’t right about this letter. It seemed to…

  9. 2026-06-02 · 1 hr 37 min · Season 1, episode 175

    It started with a fake car listing on eBay. What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware.…

  10. 2026-05-05 · 1 hr 31 min · Season 1, episode 174

    For six years, Sophos fought a secret cyber war against a state-backed hacking group targeting its firewalls. This forced Sophos to drastically change tactics to properly secure their firewalls. Was it ethical? Was it…

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Oldest episode in feed
09/2017 · over 9 years
Typical length
56 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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