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Best podcast episodes on ransomware

Ransomware explained from every side: the gangs' business model, the negotiators, the backups that fail, and the cloud variants that need no malware. Ordered from first listen to expert.

10 episodes from 10 shows. Dates and lengths are from each show's own feed.

  1. 01

    Darknet Diaries

    126: REvil

    · 64 min · Beginner

    How the REvil ransomware-as-a-service operation worked, told with a threat intelligence researcher.

  2. 02

    Click Here

    Knights of Old and a ransomware joust

    · 25 min · Beginner

    One Akira attack, one 150-year-old company that did not survive it.

  3. 03

    Hacker Valley Studio

    Inside Conti: The Ransomware Gang That Ran Like a Company with Geoff White

    · 35 min · Beginner

    Geoff White on Conti's leaked chats: salaries, HR and management inside a ransomware crew.

  4. 04

    Malicious Life

    Should You Pay Ransomware Attackers? A Game Theory Approach

    · 33 min · Beginner

    Uses game theory to frame the pay-or-not decision, including the FBI's own Colonial Pipeline payment.

  5. 05

    Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast

    Ransomware: From Isolated Attacks to Global Criminal Ecosystem

    · 48 min · Practitioner

    Explains the affiliate and access-broker economy that makes modern ransomware scale.

  6. 06

    Dark Reading Confidential

    Meet the Ransomware Negotiators

    · 54 min · Practitioner

    The people who negotiate with ransomware crews explain when paying happens and what it buys.

  7. 07

    Defense in Depth

    Protecting Your Backups from Ransomware

    · 30 min · Practitioner

    Two practitioners on why backups fail as a ransomware control and how to make them survive an attacker.

  8. 08

    Crying Out Cloud

    HACKERS ARE HIJACKING CLOUD KEYS: The Rise of Cloud-Native Ransomware

    · 23 min · Practitioner

    Explains S3-style ransomware that needs no malware at all, only stolen cloud keys.

  9. 09

    Paul's Security Weekly

    What We've Learned from LockBit and Black Basta Leaks (and News) - Ian Gray - PSW #888

    · 135 min · Practitioner

    What leaked chats and playbooks from two major ransomware crews reveal for defenders. The interview is a labelled Flashpoint-sponsored segment.

  10. 10

    Research Saturday

    The driver's seat to ransomware.

    · 24 min · Expert

    Marcus Hutchins on a zero-day a ransomware crew used to disable EDR before encryption.