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Linwei Ding was a software engineer at Google, assigned to the team building the AI infrastructure that the entire industry was racing to replicate. He had access to confidential material most engineers only read about. And for a year and a half, he used it to quietly copy over 2,000 pages of Google's most closely guarded technical secrets, file by file, right under their noses. He had a startup in Shanghai waiting for him, investors lined up in Beijing, and a one-way ticket out of the country.
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A fraud auditor at a small bank in Sri Lanka is reviewing transfers on a Thursday morning when a twenty million dollar wire comes through for an organization he's never heard of, with a name that's misspelled and a number that has no business showing up on a screen in Colombo. What he doesn't know yet is that he's looking at the edge of a billion dollar heist targeting the central bank of Bangladesh.
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Episode research sourced from Reuters, SWIFT security advisories, US Department of Justice indictments, Bangladesh Bank investigation records, Philippine Senate hearings, and Pan Asia Banking Corporation statements.
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This story reveals the inner thoughts of an IT help desk employee whose routine Friday phone call opened the door to one of the largest cyberattacks in casino history. A ten minute conversation, a single password reset, and a hundred million dollars in damage. Inspired by the 2023 MGM Resorts hack by the teenage hacking group Scattered Spider.
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NOTES - Episode research sourced from ALPHV public statements, Okta security advisories, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, VX Underground, West Midlands Police, and US Department of Justice filings.
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Before the stolen billions, before Hollywood appearances and rubbing shoulders with celebrities, before the yachts and the Picassos and the Golden Globes, Jho Low was a sixteen year old kid at a boarding school in London trying to keep up with Saudi royalty. This is the story of how he learned the game.
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His dad spent years earning the government's trust. Built a small IT firm from nothing. Landed a contract to manage billions in seized crypto for the U.S. Marshals Service. Then his 21-year-old son found the keys to the vault.
$46 million. Gone.
This is the story of how a government contractor's son robbed the federal crypto vault and couldn't stop bragging about it.
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John Daghita, 21, was arrested on March 5, 2026, on the island of Saint Martin in a joint FBI and French Gendarmerie operation. He faces charges related to the alleged theft of more than $46 million in cryptocurrency from U.S. Marshals Service seizure wallets. He has not yet been formally charged in U.S. federal court and is presumed innocent until proven guilty. His father, Dean Daghita, president of CMDSS, has not been charged with any crime.ZachXBT is an independent blockchain investigator whose analysis initiated the investigation. His findings were reported across major outlets including CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Decrypt, TRM Labs, and BleepingComputer.
If you or someone you know has been targeted by a cryptocurrency scam or investment fraud, report it to ic3.gov or your local law enforcement.
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Ronald Spektor was 23, living with his dad in Brooklyn, stealing millions from Coinbase users with nothing but a phone call. He gambled away $6 million, bragged about it on Telegram, and thought no one could touch him. Then someone started following the money. This is the story of the victim who picked up the phone, the kid who couldn't stop talking, and the trail that doesn't disappear.
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On January 9th, 2026, a Betterment employee got a phone call from IT. The voice was friendly. The request was routine. The login page looked exactly like the one he used every day. Three minutes later, hackers had full access to the systems Betterment uses to communicate with millions of customers, and they used those systems to send a crypto scam from Betterment's own channels. Within two weeks, 1.4 million customer records were dumped on the dark web. This is the story of how ShinyHunters, one of the most active cybercrime groups in the world, used a voice phishing call to breach one of America's biggest investment platforms. No malware. No code exploits. Just a phone call and a push notification. We tell the full story from the employee's perspective and break down what you can do to make sure it doesn't happen to you.
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She thought she made a friend over text. What started as a wrong number turned into months of trust, a crypto investment that looked like it was working, and a loss she never saw coming. It's called pig butchering, and it's one of the fastest growing scams in the world. The man behind this $73 million operation pleaded guilty to all of it. Then he disappeared.
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In December 2025, hackers nearly knocked out power to half a million people in Poland during a brutal cold snap. The attack was traced back to Russian intelligence.
State-sponsored hacking is an industry. There are org charts. Salaries. Military ranks. And a recruitment pipeline that can turn a criminal hacker into a government asset.
In this episode, we break down how these groups actually operate. Why North Korea's hackers are focused on stealing money while China's are after your company's trade secrets. How Russia uses a network of freelancers, criminals, and intelligence officers to do its dirty work.
This is the shadow world where cybercrime meets espionage.
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Malone Lam was 20 years old when he stole $263 million in Bitcoin from a single victim using nothing but a phone call. He bought a $3.8 million Pagani, a $2 million watch, and spent $500,000 a night at clubs handing out Birkin bags. A month later, the FBI raided his Miami mansion. This is how he did it, how he got caught, and why a couple in Connecticut got kidnapped because of it.
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A model and actress with millions of followers fell for an AI deepfake scam and lost $118,000 in a single day. In this episode, we break down exactly how a criminal syndicate trapped her on a video call for 24 hours, what made this scam nearly impossible to detect, and how you can make sure it doesn't happen to you.
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Keonne Rodriguez and his Co-founder William Lonergan Hill is in federal prison for creating Bitcoin privacy software. We explain how Bitcoin tracking works, what Samourai Wallet actually did, and why the government's own regulator said Rodriguez didn't break the law before prosecutors charged him anyway.
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pcTattletale founder catches chargers for "catch a cheater app"
Monitoring software is everywhere. Parents use it, employers use it, and it's completely legal to buy. So why is Bryan Fleming facing 15 years in federal prison for selling it? Today we break down the pcTattletale case, the legal line between legitimate monitoring and criminal surveillance, and what happens when a company that sold "100% undetectable" spyware gets hacked itself. 138,000 customers. 300 million screenshots. And one guilty plea that just changed the stalkerware industry.
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Breach after Breach after Breach
Another data breach headline you scrolled past. We get it. But that numbness is exactly what cybercriminals are counting on. In this episode, we unpack the breach landscape and give you a practical framework for deciding when to panic and when to shrug. Plus: what actually happens when your data hits the dark web, and the one action that stops most identity theft cold.
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Two cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin, just pleaded guilty to launching the exact ransomware attacks they were hired to stop. One was an incident response manager at Sygnia. The other was a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint. Together with a third accomplice, they attacked five U.S. companies using off the shelf malware.
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The Rapper and the Hacker
A few weeks ago, the guy behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack walked out of prison after serving just 14 months. His wife, who helped launder the money while building a rap career as "Razzlekhan," served eight months. In this episode, we break down how he actually pulled off the hack, why the security architecture failed, and how law enforcement finally caught them five and a half years later.
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The billionaire scam kingpin is finally in custody. On January 6th, Cambodian authorities arrested Chen Zhi. By January 7th, he was on a plane to Beijing in handcuffs.
Meanwhile, the scam compounds in Cambodia keep running.
This is the update on Chen Zhi.
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The UK government issued a secret order demanding backdoor access to any iPhone user's encrypted data. Apple's response was to disable the security feature for the entire country. Here's why that matters for everyone.
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Europol calls it Violence as a Service. You pay, someone else throws the grenade. And the person throwing it is probably 16.
Operation GRIMM just swept up 193 people across eleven countries. But the arrests aren't the story. The story is the online black market that's recruiting teenagers through Discord servers and gaming chats to carry out bombings, shootings, and contract killings. Recruiters building trust for months. Small jobs that turn into big ones. By the time these kids realize what they signed up for, they're in too deep to walk away.
The Netherlands saw over 1,500 explosive attacks last year. Police are finding bombs stored under teenagers' beds. And Europol says minors are now involved in 70 percent of organized criminal markets.
This episode breaks down how the machine works.
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In 2025, North Korea's state-sponsored hackers shattered their own previous record by stealing over $2 billion in cryptocurrency in a single year. In one hack they stole $1.5 billion from Bybit. It was the largest crypto hack in history. We break down how a country thats been cut off and ostracized by many countries, has built a cyber program on par with G7 nations.
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