A Malware marketplace is just like it sounds — a convenient online store selling pre-packaged, off-the-shelf hacking kits. And just about anyone can use them. In this episode, we speak to one of the people who started the largest English-language dark web market in the world: Darkode. We chronicle how it started, how it died, and how, against all odds, it came back. 

SHOW NOTES:
CBS NEWS: ​​How authorities infiltrate the Internet underworld
Department of Justice announcement on Darkode’s takedown
Russian 2014 fake news story

A Malware marketplace is just like it sounds — a convenient online store selling pre-packaged, off-the-shelf hacking kits. And just about anyone can use them. In this episode, we speak to one of the people who started the largest English-language dark web market in the world: Darkode. We chronicle how it started, how it died, and how, against all odds, it came back. 


SHOW NOTES:

CBS NEWS: ​​How authorities infiltrate the Internet underworld

Department of Justice announcement on Darkode’s takedown

Russian 2014 fake news story