NEW EPISODE:
#Ukrainian
#cyber
officials say half a million people across the globe are volunteering for a cyber force called Ukraine's 'IT Army.' In the
#hacktivism
campaign against
#Russia
, it's one of many groups, including
#Anonymous
.
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NEW EPISODE OF
@ClickHereShow
: After
#Russia
's invasion of Ukraine, the
#Conti
ransomware group vowed to attack anyone who tried to hack Russia… then their chat logs leaked. What the log reveal has rocked the cyber world.
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous has launched a series of cyber attacks against the Russian government since the invasion of Ukraine. And it's not alone in its fight. This week on
@ClickHereShow
, we talk with
@PandemicDisco
of Anonymous.
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NEW: Authorities in
#Iran
are wielding high-tech weapons & brute force to quell demonstrations. But protesters in
#Tehran
tell us it won’t deter them. Plus, a look at the cyber attack that spurred Albania to cut off all diplomatic ties with Iran.
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous (
@YourAnonNews
) says it’s hacking Iranian government websites. Anonymous'
@PandemicDisco
tells
@NPRDina
they’ve provided best practices for protesters to protect their safety.
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@ClickHereShow
:
NEW EPISODE: The never-before-told story about a small LA start-up and its run-in with one of the world’s most infamous hackers.
Then, Craigslist founder
@craignewmark
on his push to build a cyber civil defense force.
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NEW EPISODE: Six months after Russia's invasion, we find out how a massive cyber attack against Ukraine was diverted thanks to a TGIF miracle. Plus, we check back in with one of the leaders of the IT Army of Ukraine, a volunteer hacking force.
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NEW EPISODE: A decade ago,
#Russia
’s most famous mercenary army was fighting ISIS in Syria. The
#WagnerGroup
appears to be tearing a page out of the ISIS playbook as it launches a flashy online campaign to find recruits.
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#tech
#cyber
#war
NEW: In exclusive interviews with members of
@US_CYBERCOM
’s Hunt Forward force, we talked to the people who dreamed up, operationalized and lived the mission to protect
#Ukraine
’s critical networks in the weeks before the invasion.
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#cyber
#war
NEW EPISODE: For nearly two years, Carine Kanimba has been urging the Rwandan government to end her father’s imprisonment.
She’s faced death threats, intimidation and online mobs And now, something far more subversive: commercial grade spyware.
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NEW EPISODE: A new investigation by
@r3dmx
and
@citizenlab
shows the Mexican Army bought and systematically deployed Pegasus spyware against ordinary Mexican citizens and set up a secret military unit dedicated to high-tech surveillance.
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NEW: We traveled to Ukraine to get the inside story of a hunt forward operation carried out by
@US_CYBERCOM
and Ukrainian cyber operators before the war.
This is the first time the Ukrainian side of the mission has been revealed publicly.
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When North Korea announced the successful launch of its Hwasong-17 "Monster Missile" in March, the world took notice. But when
@ArmsControlWonk
and his team compared the launch footage with satellite imagery, the evidence told another story.
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NEW EPISODE: After spending more than a year undercover with the notorious ransomware gang
#LockBit
, one researcher explains how the group revolutionized the business of ransomware.
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Back in May, a Russian-speaking cyber gang named Clop broke into MOVEit, a little-known file transfer program. They managed to steal data from some 60 million people (and counting). What really raised eyebrows was how they did it.
#tech
#cyber
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This week on
@ClickHereShow
, generative
#AI
is learning how to write, compose music and create works of art by training on works humans have created and we look at how the carbon units (i.e. humans) are fighting back.
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#Copyright
#tech
#law
In our 1st ep of
#ClickHere
, we told you about a
#Russian
#hacking
group called
#REvil
. Have you ever wondered what a hack looks like in real time? Here are several videos that recorded some of REvil's breaches.
Our 1st ep is out! Host
@NPRDina
turns the clock back to 2019, when a Russian
#hacking
group called
#REvil
launched the largest coordinated
#ransomware
attack in the U.S. The target:
#Texas
. This eventually changed the ransomware biz.
Find “Click Here” wherever you get podcasts
This week on
@ClickHereShow
,
@FBI
Director Christopher Wray sat down with us for a rare interview to talk about Operation Dying Ember, the uptick in nation-state
#hacking
, and how just about everyone is now in hackers’ crosshairs.
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#tech
#cyber
NEW EPISODE: An exclusive interview with the newest addition to the FBI’s
#cyber
Most Wanted list.
“It won’t affect my work,” says Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, aka
#Wazawaka
. “The dog barks, but the caravan moves on.”
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#tech
#ransomware
After a four year investigation, the FBI, DOJ and its international partners shuttered Genesis, a major dark web market. Operation Cookie Monster wasn’t about collaring masterminds, but making it harder for JV hackers to launch
#cyber
attacks.
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NEW EPISODE:
#Spyware
isn't the purview of despots and autocrats anymore — democracies have started to use it, too.
@RonDeibert
at
@citizenlab
tells us about spyware in ‘a world of Bond villains.' Plus, a pause in open source mapping in
#Ukraine
.
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Even after Syrian activist Noura Al-Jizawi left the country, the Assad regime followed her — with online threats, intimidation and a hacking attempt that would have turned her own phone into a spy for the regime.
@citizenlab
Thanks to
@ayesharascoe
and the fabulous
@NPRWeekend
team for having our host
@NPRDina
on to talk about our reporting on digital privacy concerns if Roe v. Wade is struck down. Listen:
NEW EPISODE: Young people who have made millions hacking mobile phones have found a new way to intimidate and harass their rivals. They call it violence-as-a-service, and they can order brickings, firebombings, and even shootings.
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NEW EPISODE: As questions swirl about whether China will provide drones to Russia and potentially change the course of the war, we meet a man who knows drones inside and out, literally.
@damspleet
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In the latest episode of
@ClickHereShow
, host
@NPRDina
travels to Texas to meet former NSA contractor
@reazlepuff
, who served the longest prison sentence ever meted out to someone for leaking classified information to the media.
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NEW EPISODE: The cyber extortion team Lapsus$ has burst on the scene. What to do when a bunch of teenagers go on an ego-filled hacking spree, targeting companies like
@okta
,
@Microsoft
, &
@IBM
. Plus, a hacking story from a different era
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Today, the first is a series of stories from our reporting trip to
#Ukraine
. We visited secret, underground
#drone
factories where Ukrainians are finding new and creative ways to MacGyver the war and get weapons to the frontline.
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When North Korea hacked Alejandro Caceres (
@_hyp3ri0n
), he expected the U.S. government to rush to his defense. When they just shrugged, he took matters into his own hands.
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Given all the focus on
#classified
documents and the way they’ve been handled, it seemed a good time to revisit our interview with Reality Winner (
@reazlepuff
). She spent four years in prison for passing a single classified document to a reporter.
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NEW EPISODE: Axon says it has a solution for mass shootings:
#Taser
enabled
#drones
. We obtained a report that, for the first time, reveals why the company’s AI ethics board thought that was a really bad idea.
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NEW EPISODE: At a time when a spy balloon raised new questions about the absolute control of
#China
's president, we look at how Beijing's leadership quelled last year’s Covid protests and consolidated power with an arsenal of digital weapons.
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NEW EPISODE: Spying on someone with just one click? We look at how despots have leveraged
#surveillance
technologies to target
#activists
— even overseas. Plus, we meet the founder of a computer museum in Mariupol,
#Ukraine
that was destroyed.
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It seems like we hear about new
#cyberattacks
almost every day. Targets used to be just big companies and government agencies…now they are focused on you.
@ClickHereShow
from
@TheRecord_Media
and
@NPRDina
dives into the world of cyber and intelligence:
The demise of the dark web market BreachForums — and the arrest of its alleged founder in New York — sent shock waves through the cyber underworld.
@BushidoToken
says, in hindsight, a 20-year-old's hubris led to its downfall.
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For months, Western tech companies have been helping Ukrainian entities like Naftogaz protect themselves against Russian cyber attacks. Ron Bushar, from
@Mandiant
, says it’s required a military mindset.
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When the UK-US leveled sanctions and charged
#Chinese
hackers for
#CYBER
espionage last month, it looked like a triumph of coordination. But someone forgot to tell
@ipacglobal
, one of the victims, that they were part of it.
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@ClickHereShow
:
NEW EPISODE:
Ilya Sachkov co-founded the cybersecurity company Group-IB to make the world safe from Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Then he asked Russian authorities to help round them up, and things went spectacularly wrong.
#tech
#cyber
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NEW: For years, North Korea’s hacking army conducted big-ticket bank heists and raised millions for the nation’s nuclear program. Now, it’s pulling off some of the most ambitious crypto heists of all time.
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A
#Malware
marketplace is like it sounds — an online store selling pre-packaged, off-the-shelf
#hacking
kits. In our latest episode, host
@NPRDina
speaks to one of the people who created the largest English-language dark web market in the world:
#Darkode
.
#Facial
#recognition
tech is changing the war in
#Ukraine
. It's finding infiltrators, providing evidence for war crimes and, more darkly, providing fodder for propaganda. We talk with the CEO of an American company about its role in the conflict.
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Damien Spleeters (
@damspleet
) of
@conflictarm
is a drone whisperer. After years of dismantling drones found on the battlefield, he says they have amazing stories to tell.
More from his interview with
@NPRDina
: (
@TheRecord_Media
)
🎧NEW EPISODE🎧
This week on
@ClickHereShow
, we talk to a team of open source analysts and weapons inspectors who pieced together how
#NorthKorea
avoided sanctions to get
#Russia
missiles it needs for the battle in
#Ukraine
.
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NEW EPISODE: Hydra was a darknet superstore. A billion-dollar business with codes of conduct, customer support & legal and medical services. Now that it’s been shut down, who or what will replace it?
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From our reporting on the ground in
#Ukraine
:
When a Russian bomb damaged a library full of Ukrainian cultural artifacts, residents of Chernihiv feared a part of them would be lost forever. Then a cutting-edge technology came to the rescue.
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NEW EPISODE:
#Tech
entrepreneurs and developers are fleeing
#Russia
in droves. We meet three members of the exodus: a young successful entrepreneur… a corporate manager… and a high-school computer whiz who can’t wait to leave.
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This week, we return to our deep dive on the use of the
#Pegasus
spyware in
#Mexico
and the revelation that the army created a secret military intelligence unit dedicated to its use.
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#tech
#cyber
#spyware
NEW EPISODE of
@ClickHereShow
:
Be our Valentine❤️ In a
#ValentineDay
special, we look at how
#RomanceScams
have evolved.
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Plus, read our interview with a former member of Nigeria's Yahoo Boys:
What if there was an app that didn’t just tell you missiles were headed in your direction, but give you an idea of where they would land, too?
There’s an app for that.
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For years, America has been concerned about destructive cyber attacks. The obvious solution has always been for Washington and tech companies to join forces. Now, it’s looks like they are finally working together — not in the U.S, but in
#Ukraine
.
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NEW EPISODE: The talk of DEF CON 2022 was the handiwork of a white hat hacker named Sick Codes. His jailbreak of a John Deere was done with such ease, it made people start to wonder: Just how hack-able is the world’s agriculture sector?
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The FBI says it helped prevent $130 million in ransom payments by giving decryption keys to victims of the Hive ransomware gang. Bryan Smith, head of the FBI's cyber crimes unit, says it was a “unique opportunity to make victims whole.”
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For months,
@ClickHereShow
has followed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And one of our favorite guests is Victor Zhora, the deputy chairman of Ukraine’s version of CISA. Senior Producer Sean Powers caught up with him at Black Hat.
More of our coverage:
Earlier this year, the
#FBI
foiled the operations of Hive, one of the most prolific and disruptive
#ransomware
groups. We look at Hive’s collaborative WeWork-style
#cyber
operation. “We hacked the hackers,” authorities crowed after the takedown.
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NEW EPISODE: The U.S. and its allies have frozen
#Russian
credit card card transactions, and the ruble's value has fallen by nearly a half. We meet a Saint Petersburg resident who's trying to navigate an
#economy
in mid-collapse. His solution ---
#crypto
.
NEW EPISODE: What makes a hacker tick? That’s what we wanted to find out when we reached out to Bassterlord, a 27-year-old hacker in
#Ukraine
who joined some of the most infamous
#hacking
crews of our time.
#technews
#CyberCrime
#ClickHere
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This week, we talk with venture capitalist Gilman Louie, a freshly minted members of President Biden’s Intelligence Advisory Board. We discuss
#China
as a cyber threat, superpower competition, and bringing high-tech manufacturing back to the U.S.
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We’re in San Francisco for a live taping of
@ClickHereShow
. Host Dina Temple-Raston is in conversation with Gilman Louie, who was appointed last month by President Biden to the Intelligence Advisory Board.
When police tech company Axon asked its ethics board to review Taser-enabled drones to prevent mass shootings, the board concluded it was too ripe for abuse. This week, Axon is expected to revive the idea with a twist: it also wants them in schools.
MORE:
Hackers and cybercriminals may not be so different from the rest of us after all.
We talk to three real life hackers from an early dark market entrepreneur to an accidental recruit to the latest addition to the FBI’s most wanted list.
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Host Dina Temple-Raston back onstage at
@AspenCyber
to ask leaders from the nation’s intel community about its role in fighting cyber attacks and working with the private sector.
NEW: The death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, has set off a mad scramble for pieces of his paramilitary and media empire. One solution: a corporate takeover.
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Dark web markets have worked on the assumption that
#cryptocurrency
transactions were anonymous. What if that wasn’t true and
#bitcoin
📷 could be traced back to people in the real world? Well, then law enforcement moves in.
LISTEN:
#Innovation
#Technology
NEW EPISODE:
#Drones
of all shapes and sizes are part of the war effort in the skies above Ukraine. We take you inside a school meant to boost that effort by training women to fly them.
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Last week, a leaker released source code and tens of thousands of chat logs from the Russian ransomware gang
#Conti
. It’s such a gold mine of evidence that
@John_Fokker
has taken to calling it the “Panama Papers of ransomware.”
LISTEN:
#Ukraine
is the world’s first truly hybrid war, and the battle is raging on two fronts — on the ground and in cyberspace. What does the conflict mean for the future of war?
LISTEN:
#tech
#cyber
#ClickHere
“The dumb part of this is the way [Conti] did it in an unencrypted [manner],” a spokesperson for the hacktivist collective Anonymous told
@TheRecord_Media
's Dina Temple-Raston. “That’s unthinkable, right?"
Jihyun Park fled from North Korea in winter, making her way across the frozen Tumen river with her younger brother.
“Our escape was my father’s last wish,” she said as part of this week’s
@ClickHereShow
episode on North Korean hacking.
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NEW EPISODE: Last week we told you about the Mexican military’s secret use of Pegasus spyware. In Part 2, we meet
#Guacamaya
, a hacktivist group that stole 25 terabytes of data from military institutions across Latin America, and they're not done.
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The Clop ransomware gang is parceling out the names of victims each week, months after it broke into a popular file transfer service and stole the data from some 60 million people.
But the thing that's surprised researchers? How they did it.
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Last week, the world caught its first sight of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s daughter. The occasion? A new missile launch. We return to our August episode about North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
Plus, a ransomware group falls victim to a leak.
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Last year, Nina Jankowicz (
@wiczipedia
) was tapped to lead a White House advisory board on disinformation. What she hadn’t expected was to become the target of a vicious misinformation campaign herself.
Listen 🎧
#cyber
#ClickHere
#disinformation
NEW: In a rare public conversation with
@NPRDina
,
@CYBERCOM_DIRNSA
and
@CISAJen
discuss election security, collaboration in Ukraine, and the role U.S. cyber hunt teams played ahead of the invasion. "First lesson learned: presence matters."
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NEW EPISODE: There are two kinds of mass graves in Bucha, Ukraine: ones Russians dug and the ones locals created to preserve evidence of war crimes. It fell to one deputy mayor to find a way to account for the citizens laying in both.
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NEW: Iraq's government has an app that allows citizens to report “indecent” content to the authorities. Similar apps crowdsourcing morality have popped up across the region, raising new concerns about the future of free speech in the Middle East.
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As questions swirl around classified documents found at Trump’s Florida residence, we revisit the 2017 case of former NSA contractor Reality Winner. She went to prison for passing a classified document to a reporter. We visited her in Texas.
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NEW: A terror attack in Paris, an American casualty, and one of this year’s most consequential Supreme Court cases. How one California woman’s death — and YouTube’s recommendation algorithm — spurred a case that could change the internet as we know it.
Carine Kanimba once saw spyware as the stuff of movies. But since finding herself a target, she's realized her phone could be listening in at any moment.
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Remember ding-dong ditch?
A new prank among the young cyber set is swatting — calling in a hoax for police to respond with guns drawn. After years of writing it off as mischief, we see lawmakers, law enforcement, and others trying to address it.
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A five-year-old case involving a Mississippi woman and the alleged murder of a stillborn could find new resonance in a post-Roe world. Prosecutors used a 400-year-old test & her search history to charge her. Now they’d use pattern data.
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Junaid Hussain (aka TriCk) was once a “kind of sweet, kind of annoying” teenage hacker, says
@raincoaster
. But that all seemed to change in 2012.
On today’s episode: An LA tech startup, a group called TeaMp0isoN and a dark turn to ISIS.