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Darknet Diaries

119: Hot Wallets

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.98.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we interview journalist Geoff White to discuss some of the recent crypto currency heists that have been happening. Geoff has been tracking a certain group of thieves for some time and shares his knowledge of what he’s found. Much of what we talk about in this episode has been published in Geoff’s new book The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War (https://amzn.to/3mKf1qB). Sponsors Support for this show comes from Axonius. Securing assets — whether managed, unmanaged, ephemeral, or in the cloud — is a tricky task. The Axonius Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action. Axonius gives IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, decreasing incidents, and informing business-level strategy — all while eliminating manual, repetitive tasks. axonius.com/darknet Support for this show comes from Thinkst Canary. Their canaries attract malicious actors in your network and then send you an alert if someone tries to access them. Great early warning system for knowing when someone is snooping around where they shouldn’t be. Check them out at https://canary.tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ocean's Eleven was a cool movie, an elaborately planned casino heist where the thieves were

0:05.3

trying to steal millions of dollars in cash by passing all kinds of physical security

0:10.0

and tricking the guards, it was a thrill to watch.

0:14.2

But I wonder if the great heist films are coming to an end, because the largest robberies

0:20.3

are all done over computers now, and it's just not visually stimulating to watch someone's

0:26.0

sit at a computer, pushing buttons, transferring money from one account to another.

0:32.1

But even if it was, does it sound interesting if fast and the furious 27 was all about

0:37.4

who could pull off the best NFT scam?

0:39.9

But what if Reservar Dogs was remade and instead of stealing jewelry, they tried to steal

0:44.2

the private key to someone's dogecoin wallet.

0:47.2

Reservar Doge.

0:48.2

But what if there was a lock stock and two smoking ICO scams?

0:53.8

I don't know.

0:55.0

Maybe this is the future of heist films, because art imitates life, and cryptocurrency

1:01.4

heists are where the biggest thieves are playing today.

1:10.1

These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.

1:16.6

I'm Jack Recyder.

1:19.4

This is Dark Net Diaries.

1:37.3

Support for the show comes from CrowdStrike.

1:39.5

Is it me or does it feel like every other news story is about cyber attacks?

1:44.2

You feel that way too?

1:45.4

Well, as a listener of my show, you already know how vulnerable your business is to hackers.

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