Wizard Spider
Investigative journalist Geoff White has spent a lot of time inside the leaked communications of Conti — the Russian ransomware gang that ra...
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Hacked
A podcast about the curious, enlightening and occasionally criminal underbelly of the internet.
Episodes
20 of 151 episodesREvil Redux
We return to one of the more interesting ransomware as a service stories of the last few years; the story of REvil and it's recently (allege...
Birds of a Feather Panopticon Together
Heads up, the guy in the opening story survives — realized in editing it's kind of stressful if you don't know where that's going. In this c...
Breaking the Chain of Custody
We start this chatty chat looking at the legacy of EternalBlue, an NSA-developed cyberweapon that leaked in 2017 and powered global disaster...
The $5 Wrench Attack
In this chatty chat episode, we kick things off with a primer on one of the oldest methods of stealing money—made new again in the age of cr...
=Coffee
A lot of modern AI models have a kind of security guard layer that sits in front of them. Its job? A binary choice as to whether the prompt...
The Protege — "Possibly the Worst Intelligence Disaster in U.S. History"
Two FBI agents. One room. One of them is the most damaging spy in U.S. history. Robert Hanssen told a lot of lies — including a really weird...
The Charizard Charade
Pokémon cards became a billion-dollar market—and then a massive fraud target. This episode follows the rise of ultra-rare Pokémon prototypes...
2025 Chatty Chat Year in Review
It’s the 2025 Chatty Chat year in review friends! We’re diving into a big old pile of stories from the past year and speculating on what’s t...
Inside the Smishing Triad
A deep dive into Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to millions of scam texts worldwide, and the sprawling “smishing triad”...
The Gayborhood
For the last few years, Grindr has branded itself as the global gayborhood—a digital safe space for queer communities. But a series of Europ...
How Much of Facebook’s Revenue Is Scam Ads—And Other Chat Worthy Questions
It’s a chatty chat. I repeat, this one's a chatty chat. Today we’re digging into the big weird questions on our desk: what percentage of Met...
BADBOX 2.0
Hh hey maybe don't buy that $14 projector off amazon. In this episode, we dive into the sequel nobody asked for: BADBOX 2.0 — the return of...
The SIM Farm
The story of a massive swatting hoax campaign across the US that helped take down a piece of cybercrime infrastructure in the heart of New Y...
The Banxico Heist and a High Wire Act of Solo Podcasting
The question: can one host of a podcast that was planning to do a chatty chat episode proceed at the last minute while the other host is unf...
Will the Real Velvet Sundown Please Stand Up?
The story of a hoax within a hoax within a hoax within an AI soft rock band. That and a bunch of other stories about technology. Learn more...
Gamescom 2025
Reboundergame.com ( if you wanna wishlist our work in progress game on Steam <3 ) A weird little road episode intro, a little self promotion...
From Street to State
We discuss the rise of China’s early patriotic hacking scene, and a new report that unravels how some of its most skilled members eventually...
The Escobar Phone and Imaginary Flamethrowers
We unpack how a Swedish entrepreneur used Pablo Escobar’s name to sell fake phones, flamethrowers, and crypto — and how a viral scam built o...
The McDonald’s Hiring Robot Hack
We start with the AI hiring chatbot used by McDonald’s, and the vulnerability hiding beneath the conversation. What looked like some janky j...