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 document to a reporter. Given all the focus on classified documents and the way they’ve been handled in recent weeks, it seemed a good time to take another look at what happened to Reality. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
4 Juli 202322min
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. We tell the story of one group of researchers who use open source intelligence, algorithms and satellite imagery in a bid to quell the violence in Sudan. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
27 Juni 202328min
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 the ground in Kyiv, and they provide new details about the effort to defend Ukrainian networks against Russian cyber attacks in the weeks before the war. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
20 Juni 202328min
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 of the nation’s Army of Drones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
13 Juni 202319min
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’t just hint at the future of modern warfare: they’re a callback to an earlier time, when a group called ISIS lured young men to fight in Syria. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
6 Juni 202326min
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.S. targets. In a rare interview shortly after the FBI announcement, he talked about the new designation and what he wants to do next. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
30 Maj 202321min
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 Lindsey Kennedy took a trip along the Mekong River and revealed new details about southeast Asia’s latest scourge: cyber slaves.ADDITIONAL READING: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3195932/laos-criminal-casino-empire-chinese-gangsters Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
23 Maj 202323min
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 for itself, in part, by holding hospital and healthcare systems for ransom during the pandemic. What made the group so effective was its own twist on WeWork-style collaboratives… and it led to their demise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
16 Maj 202318min
