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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.

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362 episodes
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Apr 12, 2024 · 6 min
121. Mic Drop: A unusual peek inside a North Korean malware lab
North Korea has a unique way of testing malware — they are less concerned about getting it right than getting it out… a kind of “smash-and-grab” approach to cyber attacks. Sentinel One’s Tom Hegel explains.
Apr 9, 2024 · 24 min
120. North Korea’s ScarCruft gang is behind some very crafty phishin’ campaigns
North Korea may be best known for the Lazarus group’s epic cryptocurrency heists. But there’s another special unit of state-backed hackers who have a different specialty: spying on journalists, dissidents, and cybersecurity experts. We look at the ScarCruft gang and their very crafty phishing campaigns.
Apr 5, 2024 · 11 min
119. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the jaguar in Costa Rica?
Everyone is talking about the power of AI in conservation, but a professor at Arizona State University has found an even simpler, more elegant solution – and all you have to do is listen.
Apr 2, 2024 · 27 min
118. AI and the Holy Grail of conservation: Real-time monitoring
Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been trying to get real-time monitoring of the Central African Republic’s forest elephants for years. FruitPunch AI and a roster of other AI researchers are closer than ever to making that a reality.
Mar 29, 2024 · 8 min
117. Mic Drop: The Big Chill: Nigeria, Binance battle likely to add to economic crisis
Matthew Page from the London-based think tank Chatham House pulls back to look at the potential economic fallout between Nigerian government and Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
Mar 26, 2024 · 26 min
116. Detained execs, a bold escape, and tax evasion charges: Nigeria takes aim at Binance
116. Detained execs, a bold escape, and tax evasion charges: Nigeria takes aim at Binance
Mar 22, 2024 · 10 min
115. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session
We talk to Analyst1 senior researcher Jon DiMaggio about how hackers settle their disputes – think People’s Court without all the robes.
Mar 19, 2024 · 24 min
114. Exclusive: LockBit ransomware leader says, ‘I felt like I was being hunted’ but they ‘can’t stop me’
We speak with the leader of one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service gangs the world has ever known — LockBit. Just weeks after Operation Cronos, a global police action against the group, LockBitSupp tells us about the takedown, his attempt to rebuild, and his plans for the future.
Mar 15, 2024 · 7 min
113. Mic Drop: Exclusive: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’
Our interview of the week: LockBitSupp says his ransomware platform isn’t dead yet.
Mar 12, 2024 · 24 min
112. Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire
Newly leaked files from a private Chinese hackers-for-hire company provide a fresh look into China’s “cyber industrial complex” – and it appears to be bigger and more mature than observers had previously imagined.
Mar 8, 2024 · 12 min
111. Mic Drop: Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis on North Korea’s new BFF in Moscow
Our interview of the week — a one-on-one with arms control policy expert, Jeffrey Lewis.
Mar 5, 2024 · 24 min
110. North Korean Missiles in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un’s new swagger
We talk to a team of open source analysts and weapons inspectors who have pieced together how Pyongyang avoided sanctions to get Russia missiles it needs for the battle in Ukraine and look at why Kim Jung-un is feeling he’s got his groove back.
Mar 1, 2024 · 10 min
109. Mic Drop: FBI Director Wray on the latest wave of nation-state cyber threats
Our interview of the week — a rare one-on-one with FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Feb 27, 2024 · 23 min
108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace
FBI Director Chris Wray sat down for a rare interview with Click Here to talk about Operation Dying Ember, the uptick in nation-state hacking, and how just about everyone is now in hackers’ crosshairs.
Feb 20, 2024 · 24 min
107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust
107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust
Feb 13, 2024 · 28 min
106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?
Some 600,000 people are reported missing in the U.S. every year. Thousands of bodies lie unclaimed and unidentified in American morgues. Facial recognition software could put a name to these faces, so why hasn’t it?
Feb 6, 2024 · 27 min
105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections
Jan 30, 2024 · 26 min
104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?
Jan 23, 2024 · 24 min
103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might
Some data scientists and acoustic biologists have joined forces to see if artificial intelligence can ferret meaning out of non-human language. And one of their early subjects is a perennial favorite: humpback whales.
Jan 16, 2024 · 23 min
102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets
We take a look at the part of the Israel-Hamas war that is harder to see – the battle raging in cyberspace. Hacktivists are joining forces with Iran-backed operators to target victims with gossamer connections to Israel.

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121. Mic Drop: A unusual peek inside a North Korean malware lab

120. North Korea’s ScarCruft gang is behind some very crafty phishin’ campaigns

119. Mic Drop: Could an analysis of sound help save the jaguar in Costa Rica?

118. AI and the Holy Grail of conservation: Real-time monitoring

117. Mic Drop: The Big Chill: Nigeria, Binance battle likely to add to economic crisis

116. Detained execs, a bold escape, and tax evasion charges: Nigeria takes aim at Binance

115. Mic Drop: Hear ye, Hear ye, the Hacker’s Court is in session

114. Exclusive: LockBit ransomware leader says, ‘I felt like I was being hunted’ but they ‘can’t stop me’

113. Mic Drop: Exclusive: Embattled LockBit leader: ‘Now I want to create even more noise’

112. Inside the i-Soon papers and China’s secret world of hackers-for-hire

111. Mic Drop: Arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis on North Korea’s new BFF in Moscow

110. North Korean Missiles in Ukraine and Kim Jong-un’s new swagger

109. Mic Drop: FBI Director Wray on the latest wave of nation-state cyber threats

108. Exclusive: FBI Director Wray talks takedown operations, nation-state hackers, and growing threats in cyberspace

107. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘In the cockpit with AI’ from In Machines We Trust

106. Facial recognition software could help solve America’s missing person problem. Why hasn’t it?

105. Jordan’s wave of spyware infections

104. Generative AI: Is it creative or just copying the rest of us?

103. Dr. Dolittle never spoke whale, AI just might

102. Cyber Av3ngers and their unlikely targets