Evil Corp: 2. Into the storm

Cyber Hack

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A rookie FBI agent is swept up in a case that goes from Main St, USA, to the UK, Ukraine and Russia. Cyber-crime victims are everywhere. This is way bigger than Jim Craig thought. He travels to Ukraine to meet his counterparts. Over vodka and fine food in a dacha in the Ukrainian forest, they make a plan to go after the suspected cyber hackers.

Hosted by Joe Tidy, the BBC’s cyber correspondent – one of the few Western journalists to have met an alleged member of Evil Corp – and the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford, who spent more than two decades reporting from Moscow.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.7	Welcome to Cyberhack.
0:07.9	Episodes are released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:11.3	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode a week early first on BBC Sounds.
0:32.2	Now it is my pleasure to present to you the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush.
0:39.1	At the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, all eyes are on the stage.
0:39.9	Thank you.
0:45.9	But our focus is on one of the hundreds of people putting their hands together for their commander-in-chief.
0:52.1	Thanks for having me. I'm so pleased to be back to the FBI Academy and to share with you this special day.
0:56.4	It's the Bureau's graduation ceremony, 2008.
0:59.9	Among the rows of dark suits sits Jim Craig.
1:03.8	Soon it'll be his turn to cross the stage, receive his badge,
1:07.1	and finally become a special agent of the FBI.
1:14.3	Over the past century, the FBI has grown from a small team of 34 investigators to a powerful force of more than 30,000 agents and analysts and support professionals serving around
1:19.6	the world. Jim has already served his country around the world. He used to be a Marine. Now he's
1:26.3	about to trade firefights for firewalls. As you go forth
1:30.3	from this academy, you're going to write a new chapter in the FBI's storied history. Jim has no
1:37.4	idea how true that'll be. I wish you all the best in the future. May God bless you.
1:46.6	And he'll need more than blessings,
1:49.4	because his first case will push him and the Bureau
1:52.4	straight into the Zeus cybercrime storm.
1:59.4	This really started to build very, very quickly.
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