Dark Perimeter: Real Breaches, Real Stakes

Every major cyberattack has a story behind it. A vulnerability no one patched. A phishing email someone clicked. A nation-state with a motive. Dark Perimeter goes beyond the headlines to explore the true stories of the hacks, breaches, and cyber operations that shaped history - told in narrative form for security professionals and curious minds alike. No guests, no panels, no filler. Just the story.

Dark Perimeter: Real Breaches, Real Stakes is a true crime podcast hosted by Cole Drayden, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Cole Drayden hosts Dark Perimeter: Real Breaches, Real Stakes, a true crime show with 40 episodes published.

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  Dark Perimeter: Real Breaches, Real Stakes

  The Breach Files — Episode 9: "Playback"

  Oct 2, 20265 min

  August 2022. A developer's workstation at LastPass was compromised. The company disclosed it, said no customer data was affected, and moved on. They were wrong. Four months later, the attacker came back — this time for the vaults. Three hundred and fifty million encrypted password vaults. In the hands of an unknown adversary. Being cracked, one by one, to this day. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized. Support the show

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  The Breach Files — Episode 8: "The Vault"

  Sep 25, 20265 min

  March 2022. A developer at Sky Mavis opened a PDF. Six hundred and twenty-five million dollars disappeared. The Ronin Network breach is the largest cryptocurrency theft in history. The attackers — North Korea's Lazarus Group — spent months positioning themselves before they moved. By the time anyone noticed, they were already gone. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized. Support the show

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  The Breach Files — Episode 7: "Red Notice"

  Sep 18, 20266 min

  They called themselves Scattered Spider. They were teenagers — mostly American, some British — operating from bedrooms, dorm rooms, and their parents' houses. Between 2022 and 2024, they breached over a hundred major corporations. MGM. Caesars. Dozens of telecoms. Companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars. The arrests came one at a time. The youngest was sixteen. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized. Support the show

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  The Breach Files — Episode 6: "The Cleaner"

  Sep 11, 20265 min

  May 7th, 2021. Colonial Pipeline shut down 5,500 miles of fuel infrastructure supplying 45 percent of the East Coast's gasoline. The key to America's fuel supply was a single recycled password with no second factor of authentication. DarkSide got four point four million dollars. The FBI got most of it back. DarkSide disappeared — only to resurface under a new name. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized. Support the show

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  The Breach Files — Episode 5: "God Mode"

  Sep 4, 20266 min

  September 2023. Las Vegas. The slot machines stopped. The hotel room key cards died. The reservations system went dark. Scattered Spider had been inside MGM Resorts for ten minutes of conversation before a help desk operator handed them the keys to one of the largest casino empires on earth. MGM refused to pay. It cost them a hundred million dollars. The Breach Files: True cybercrime. Dramatized. Support the show

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