Mic Drop: The demise of ransomware and the rise of crypto
2024 was a banner year for cybercriminal takedowns. Recorded Future analyst Alexander Leslie talks about how ransomware has had to adapt and what the Trump administration’s vow to take cryptocurrency ...
3 Jan 202513min
196. 2024: A year of living more dangerously in cyberspace.
In a recent conversation on WAMU’s nationally syndicated 1A news show, Click Here’s Dina Temple-Raston speaks with 1A’s host Jenn White about China and Russia’s increasingly aggressive cyberattacks, a...
31 Dec 202442min
195. Mic Drop: A return to the NSA's Cryptologic Museum - a spycatcher's dream
Just a stone's throw from the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, the National Cryptologic Museum displays dozens of rarely seen codebreaking machines that, quite literally, changed the course of history....
27 Dec 202411min
194. A return to the musicians who came in from the cold
At a time when Vladimir Putin is attempting to redraw the Iron Curtain, we revisit an earlier episode in which we take a trip back to the Soviet Union circa 1985 when four American musicians smuggled ...
24 Dec 202422min
193. Mic Drop: For researcher Allison Nixon, young cybercriminals are ‘objectively interesting’
We return to a conversation we had over the summer with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world. Learn about your ad choices...
20 Dec 202413min
192. Return to the leak that unmasked China’s hackers-for-hire
Recently, the US sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees who compromised tens of thousands of firewalls worldwide, with potentially deadly consequences. All of this could s...
17 Dec 202422min
191. SPECIAL FEATURE: ‘(Ai)ding Cybercrime’ from SHIFT
An episode of ‘SHIFT’ from PRX:AI is being integrated into our technologies at warp speed, but we are only starting to consider how it could be weaponized in the future. The SHIFT podcast talks to Lee...
13 Dec 202412min
190. Return to the curious case of the disappearing TikTok videos
TikTok took down Esma Memtimin’s posts for allegedly violating the platform’s community rules, even though her videos were about little more than stickers and some current events. Just days after TikT...
10 Dec 202426min
