Evil Corp: 5. Game over

Cyber Hack

BBC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As the cyber criminals reinvent themselves, FBI Special Agent Keith Mularski goes undercover to infiltrate the operation. But as kingpin Tank is finally arrested, another leader rises with the creation of a new crew: Evil Corp. The group’s alleged leader, Maksim Yakubets, would go on to steal millions using “one of the most prolific and successful malware strains” in the history of cyber-crime.

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:06.5	The party is raging.
0:09.8	Drinks flowing, laughter echoing.
0:12.8	But this isn't your standard night out.
0:17.0	It's all happening inside prison.
0:20.2	Join me, Amber Hack, for a shocking case of forbidden love,
0:25.0	hidden corruption and a million pound drug boss. You don't think it can happen to you, but it does.
0:31.0	Gangster presents sex, drugs and cell blockies. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:39.2	Welcome to Cyberhack.
0:42.8	Episodes are released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:46.9	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episode a week early.
0:49.3	First, on BBC Sounds. 2014.
0:58.0	War erupts in eastern Ukraine.
1:01.0	Shells rain down on Danyetsk, a city that's home to nearly a million people.
1:08.0	Among them, Vyatslav Pinchukov, who we know as that kingpin of cybercrime, tank.
1:15.2	We found a video from the 7th of August.
1:18.0	It captures the moment a blast rips through his apartment and his young daughter's bedroom.
1:25.8	Let's scroll back.
1:27.6	In the footage, I can see that there's heavy shelling, giant clouds of smoke.
1:33.0	Then two more explosions as Tank's tower block takes a direct hit.
1:41.6	Tank told me about that when our producer and I visited him in prison in Colorado.
1:47.0	What you're about to hear is a summary of that conversation, based on their notes, reconstructed with an actor.
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