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76. The Mexican army’s love affair with spyware
Since our story on spyware in Mexico aired back in March, researchers have discovered a roster of Pegasus spyware infections on the phones of local j…
3 years, 2 months ago
75. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'Life, death and AI' from Endless Thread
From WBUR's “Endless Thread" podcast, a story on a growing segment of artificial intelligence: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text and …
3 years, 2 months ago
74. Reality Winner and the handling of secret documents
We revisit a sit-down interview we had with NSA contractor Reality Winner shortly after she spent 4 years in prison for passing a single classified d…
3 years, 2 months ago
73. Can satellite surveillance save Sudan from itself?
Two decades after Arab militias first torched villages and killed hundreds of thousands of people in West Darfur, violence has returned to the region…
3 years, 2 months ago
72. Exclusive: Inside an American Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine
We go behind the scenes of U.S. Cyber Command’s Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine. We interviewed half a dozen American cyber warriors who were on th…
3 years, 3 months ago
71. A return to model drone pilots and Ukraine’s spring offensive
As Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive begins, we revisit a story we did last winter about some unusual Ukrainian women training to become part o…
3 years, 3 months ago
70. An unlikely teacher: what Wagner Group learned from ISIS
The Russian private army known as the Wagner Group is trying to persuade young men to join the fight in Ukraine. Their online recruitment efforts don…
3 years, 3 months ago
69. Wazawaka: ‘Most Wanted’ and, he says, undeterred
This month, the FBI added Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev to their Most Wanted hacker list for his alleged role in a number of ransomware attacks against U…
3 years, 3 months ago
68. SPECIAL FEATURE: 'The Slave Armies Powering a New Kind of Golden Triangle Cybercrime' from The Underworld Podcast
From “The Underworld” podcast, a conversation about casino towns, gangster owners, and a new twist on scamming operations. Nathan Paul Southern and L…
3 years, 4 months ago
67. Hive’s WeWork experiment — and what went wrong
When the FBI and Justice Department took down a collective of cybercriminals known as Hive earlier this year, it targeted a group that made a name fo…
3 years, 4 months ago