Bite Sized Cyber Crime
A podcast with short episodes that discuss cyber crime cases, security problems, and infamous malware. I make my episodes quick and easy to understand so you get the story without the filler and too much technical jargon. Links to all my sources on my pastebin https://pastebin.com/u/BiteSizedCyberCrime
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Episodes
Episodes
Monday May 25, 2026
Monday May 25, 2026
GitHub is the most popular code repository site, but after an employee account was compromised their source code was stolen and is now up for sale on the dark web, with threats to leak it if there is not a buyer.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/U07MP4M0
Monday May 11, 2026
Monday May 11, 2026
Canvas is a massive education platform used globally in education, and they just suffered a hack that has left both students ans educators scrambling during one of their busiest weeks of the year, finals.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/tBmP2bxc
Monday May 04, 2026
Monday May 04, 2026
Ransomware groups don't often target each other, but when they do it gets really interesting. Not only can defenders learn a lot about how these groups operate, but it can really boost the reputation of these groups. The only issue is your victim will most likely strike back hard.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/Q4jQPqW2
Monday Apr 27, 2026
Monday Apr 27, 2026
Ransomware negotiators are supposed to give you the best price to get your files back, but what if they are actually conspiring to get you the worst one? One such man plead guilty to this and revealed just how he worked with the BlackCat group to con his own clients.
Monday Apr 20, 2026
Monday Apr 20, 2026
DDoS attacks are common and annoying, not allowing you to visit your favorite app or more dangerously, not allowing you to use important government provided services you may need. Operation PowerOFF claims another criminal enterprise when they arrested 4 people and seized 53 servers involved in a massive DDoS as a service ring.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/9iBuHv6a
Monday Apr 13, 2026
Monday Apr 13, 2026
Anthropic's latest model is supposedly better than all but the most elite level of hackers in discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities, but where does that leave us today and where will we go in the future. Fortunately, at least not any time soon, I don't see the job of the security engineer being stolen by robots.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/QFxpXmcH
Monday Apr 06, 2026
Monday Apr 06, 2026
Decentralized finance, when not done correctly, often lends itself to massive crypto heists that result in millions being stolen and the story of the Drift protocol which operates on the Solana blockchain is no different. Attackers didn't actually need a vulnerability in code to pull off this heist, however, just two separate people who signed off on a malicious transaction.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/Q5BYYapY
Monday Mar 30, 2026
Monday Mar 30, 2026
FireFox has been a favorite browser among nerds for a while, especially for its privacy capabilities and it seems to be leaning into it even more by implementing a free browser based VPN for testing in its latest update with a 50GB a month data limit.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/QNN9Hc7B
Why Cyber Crime?
Cyber crime is an ever-growing problem in a world where our lives are integrated online. Millions of internet users have their data stolen from data breaches or by hackers. No one is safe, even if you maintain no online presence. My goal is to share stories that can teach us about how we can best protect our data, whether you are a person or an organization.