Bonus: Cyber Hack - Evil Corp

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

They steal billions: Cyber Hack investigates the alleged cyber gangs and the heists and hacks they’re accused of carrying out. No one is said to be safe. From Hollywood studios, to international banks, from crypto exchanges to small businesses and health care companies, law enforcement agencies say they cause chaos around the globe. Who will be next? And where is the money going?

This series looks at The Russian Evil Corp accused of being a family crime gang, responsible for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. Law enforcement agencies say they are “the most pervasive cybercrime group to ever have operated”. No one is off limits – not even a group of nuns in Chicago.

This is episode 1 of the series. For more episodes, just search 'Cyber Hack' wherever you got this podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.8	Hi, documentary listeners. As you listen to the documentary, there's a brand new season of another BBC podcast we thought you might want to know about.
0:14.7	It's a story of the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars.
0:18.5	Investigators claim it was stolen by Russia's most wanted hackers.
0:22.5	I'm Joe Tidy, the BBC's cyber correspondent.
0:25.7	And I'm Sarah Rainsford, the BBC's Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent.
0:29.9	And together we're presenting the brand new season of The Cyberhack podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:36.7	The new season's called Evil Corps, and you're about to hear the first episode.
0:41.2	If you like it and you want to hear more, it's the first episode of six.
0:45.4	To listen to more, search Cyberhack, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:51.2	Welcome to Cyberhack.
0:53.1	Episodes are released weekly, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:56.7	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode, a week early, first on BBC Sounds.
1:08.4	You'd hear them before you ever saw them.
1:12.6	Engines howling somewhere beyond the edge of Moscow.
1:18.0	The first time I discovered the drag races,
1:21.2	earlier in my career covering Russia more than 20 years ago,
1:24.8	it felt like I'd stepped onto the set of the fast and the furious.
1:28.7	This was Moscow's underground street racing scene, a wild mix of people buzzing around in
1:34.2	beat-up but beloved lardas and other souped-up old cars.
1:38.6	By day they blended in. By night, they'd gather in secret locations, tear down hundreds of metres of tarmac,
1:46.0	before melting back into the city before sunrise.
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