73: WannaCry

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It is recommend to listen to episodes 53 “Shadow Brokers”, 71 “FDFF”, and 72 “Bangladesh Bank Heist” before listening to this one. In May 2017 the world fell victim to a major ransomware attack known as WannaCry. One of the victims was UK’s national health service. Security researchers scrambled to try to figure out how to stop it and who was behind it. Thank you to John Hultquist from FireEye and thank you to Matt Suiche founder of Comae. Sponsors Support for this episode comes from LastPass. LastPass is a great password manager but it can do so much more. It can setup 2FA for your company, or use it to monitor what your users are doing in the network. Visit LastPass.com/Darknet to start your 14 day free trial. This episode was sponsored by Linode. Linode supplies you with virtual servers. Visit linode.com/darknet and when signing up with a new account use code darknet2020 to get a $20 credit on your next project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Jack, host of the show.
0:03.2	Listen, you might not be ready for this episode.
0:05.2	There's a few prerequisites.
0:06.7	I recommend you do first.
0:08.3	First, we're going to be talking about the Shadow Brokers
0:10.4	in this episode, and I already covered them in episode 53.
0:14.4	So I highly encourage you to check that episode out first,
0:17.6	which is just called Shadow Brokers before this one.
0:20.3	Second, I made episodes 71, 72, and 73 to be listened to
0:24.2	in that order.
0:25.3	And since this is episode 73,
0:27.8	maybe check out the two episodes before this first.
0:31.0	Of course, you don't have to.
0:32.2	This episode still stands on its own anyway,
0:34.4	but that's my recommendation.
0:36.8	Okay, so with that out of the way, let's jump right into it.
0:40.0	My name is Tony Blitman.
0:41.6	I'm an emergency physician.
0:43.7	And in 2017, I was working as a freelance
0:48.3	senior emergency physician in the number of hospitals in the UK.
0:52.3	So why did I take up this physician's precious time
0:55.0	to come on a show of which talks about hacking?
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