dontgetgot
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The Very First Ransomeware Attack: The AIDS Trojan
The Very First Ransomeware Attack: The AIDS Trojan
About this podcast
dontgetgot covers interesting things happening in privacy and security, and how they relate to you.
Some episodes are true stories: the hackers and scammers behind real attacks, who they are, how they think, and why they did it.
Others are deep dives into security trends. The cameras on your street, the data brokers selling your address, the tools police use to get into your phone, and how AI is changing all of it.
Either way, the goal is the same. Help you understand privacy and security technology, so you dontgetgot.
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Episodes
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- The Very First Ransomeware Attack: The AIDS Trojan · 6 minThe Harvard Biologist Who Invented RansomwareTHE AIDS TROJAN : The strange story of the world’s first ransomware attackIn 1989, a Harvard biologist who studied baboons wrote the…
- The History of PHP: The Internets Blind Spot Exploited · 7 minHow a 1994 hobby project ended up running most of the internet, and quietly carried a twenty-year-old flaw nobody could exploit, until AI finally pulled it open this week…
- Dont Shoot The Drone · 8 minA group of guys in Lee County, Florida, were shooting a BB gun into the woods when a sheriff's drone out looking for a bear flew over them, and one of them turned the gun on it…
- Safety, Surveillance, and Your Mail Truck · 10 minUSPS is testing cameras on 100 mail trucks in Washington, DC. This is part of a much bigger pattern. This video covers the USPS mail truck camera pilot, the Postal Service's own…
- Slaughter Lane: How an Austin Man Lost $1.4 Million to a Pig Butchering Scam · 11 min · Episode 32In September 2025, an Austin man got a message from a stranger claiming to be an investment adviser. Seven months and $1,408,850 later, police were waiting in a bank parking lot…
- Linwei Ding - Google's Insider Threat · 21 min · Episode 31Linwei Ding was a software engineer at Google, assigned to the team building the AI infrastructure that the entire industry was racing to replicate. He had access to confidential…
- The Bangladesh Bank Heist: How a Typo Saved $900 Million · 12 min · Episode 30A fraud auditor at a small bank in Sri Lanka is reviewing transfers on a Thursday morning when a twenty million dollar wire comes through for an organization he's never heard of…
- The Call That Crashed Las Vegas - MGM Hack · 16 min · Episode 29This story reveals the inner thoughts of an IT help desk employee whose routine Friday phone call opened the door to one of the largest cyberattacks in casino history. A ten…
- Jho Low - The Prince of Malaysia · 16 min · Episode 28Before the stolen billions, before Hollywood appearances and rubbing shoulders with celebrities, before the yachts and the Picassos and the Golden Globes, Jho Low was a sixteen…
- The Contractor's Son - How a 21 Year Old Stole $46 Million From The US Marshals · 15 min · Episode 27His dad spent years earning the government's trust. Built a small IT firm from nothing. Landed a contract to manage billions in seized crypto for the U.S. Marshals Service. Then…
- Ronald Spektor: The Coinbase Scammer Who Stole $16 Million and Bragged About It · 18 min · Episode 26Ronald Spektor was 23, living with his dad in Brooklyn, stealing millions from Coinbase users with nothing but a phone call. He gambled away $6 million, bragged about it on…
- Betterment Got Got: The ShinyHunters Voice Phishing Attack · 14 min · Episode 25On January 9th, 2026, a Betterment employee got a phone call from IT. The voice was friendly. The request was routine. The login page looked exactly like the one he used every…
- Daren Li - Pig Butchering & The $73 Million Money Laundering Operation · 19 min · Episode 24She thought she made a friend over text. What started as a wrong number turned into months of trust, a crypto investment that looked like it was working, and a loss she never saw…
- The Business of State-Sponsored Hackers · 11 min · Episode 23In December 2025, hackers nearly knocked out power to half a million people in Poland during a brutal cold snap. The attack was traced back to Russian intelligence…
- Malone Lam: The 20-Year-Old Who Stole $263 Million in Bitcoin · 11 min · Episode 22Malone Lam was 20 years old when he stole $263 million in Bitcoin from a single victim using nothing but a phone call. He bought a $3.8 million Pagani, a $2 million watch, and…
- Charlotte Austin - Famous Model Falls for AI Deepfake Scam · 12 min · Episode 21A model and actress with millions of followers fell for an AI deepfake scam and lost $118,000 in a single day. In this episode, we break down exactly how a criminal syndicate…
- Why Keonne Rodriguez Is in Prison for Caring about Privacy · 11 min · Episode 20Keonne Rodriguez and his Co-founder William Lonergan Hill is in federal prison for creating Bitcoin privacy software. We explain how Bitcoin tracking works, what Samourai Wallet…
- Spyware App Creator Bryan Fleming facing 15 years in Prison · 8 min · Episode 19pcTattletale founder catches chargers for "catch a cheater app" Monitoring software is everywhere. Parents use it, employers use it, and it's completely legal to buy. So why is…
- Why Americans Have Grown Numb to Data Breaches · 13 min · Episode 18Breach after Breach after Breach Another data breach headline you scrolled past. We get it. But that numbness is exactly what cybercriminals are counting on. In this episode, we…
- Cybersecurity Pros Plead Guilty to Ransomware Attacks · 11 minTwo cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin, just pleaded guilty to launching the exact ransomware attacks they were hired to stop. One was an…
