Hi and welcome to Malicious Life I'm Ran Levy.

Today we have something a bit different for you. You are about hear an episode of the podcast Darknet Diaries.

Darknet Diaries is an amazing podcast. Its tagline is true stories from the dark side of the internet and

trust me the stories you'll hear in the dark net diaries are truly amazing full of

great Infoseck and hacker stories just like malicious life. Me and Jack Reicider, host of Darknet

diaries, have decided to swap podcast for a day. And so if you go and visit Darknet

diaries.com you'll find our episode about the Half Life 2 hack in his show and here on our show I chose to play for you an episode called Black Duck Eggs.

It's about a former NSA agent who has gone off to be a security consultant.

He tells a story about an assignment that he'll never forget. It's full of spies and social engineering,

but what they uncover while on the assignment is really incredible.

So here's the episode. Enjoy. A lot of hackers act alone do it solo and treat it like an art form. They plan their attack, feel for what to do next.

Attempt to exploit the system, and they rely on their intuition to conduct a hack.

But IRA does it differently.

I specialize in putting together teams of former Special Forces and Intelligence

Officers to go after organizations.

Ira is methodical, follows a playbook, and works with highly trained people.

The jobs Ira does are bigger than what one person is capable of.

He needs a crew of specialized people, each one with a different

mastery of their craft. And he's assembled one of the most elite hacking teams in the country.

Each member is incredibly skilled. They rely more on their

training on what steps are required to accomplish the task, unless on intuition.

The plan of attack is structured and methodical.

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