24 episodes
The Lazarus Heist BBC Podcasts
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- True Crime
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4.5 • 64 Ratings
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Hackers, North Korea and billions of dollars. Lazarus returns – in fact, the criminals never went away. Season 2 begins at an ATM, possibly near you. With Jean Lee and Geoff White. Investigators claim a secretive, elite North Korean hacking ring, nicknamed the Lazarus Group, is responsible for the theft of billions of dollars around the globe. Pyongyang denies having anything to do with cybercrimes, saying the United States is making these allegations to try to tarnish its image. Season 1 told the stories of the Lazarus Group's alleged hacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment and Bangladesh Bank and the WannaCry ransomware attack.
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S2.9 Big spenders
“Are you a North Korean hacker? Yes, I am.” Investigators say money from the Lazarus Group’s hacks is flowing into Kim Jong-un’s nuclear weapons programme. Can it be stopped?
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S2.8 Bitcoin bandits
From millions to billions: the Lazarus Group get into cryptocurrency. North Korea tries to infiltrate companies from the inside, posing as job seekers. “We had a North Korean on our payroll”. Can investigators stop them cashing out their digital loot? #LazarusHeist
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S2.7 Crypto comrades
It’s North Korea’s first crypto conference. Eight international tech experts decide to go but someone is watching. Their every move in Pyongyang is followed and they soon regret the trip. “I was put in handcuffs and taken to an interrogation centre.”
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S2.6 False flags
“He wrote me beautiful letters!” A “bromance” begins between President Trump and Kim Jong-un but how long will it last? The US president’s former security advisor, Ambassador John Bolton, reveals what happens inside the summit room when the two leaders meet face to face. Plus, the Olympic Destroyer hackers are finally unmasked – but who are they?
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S2.5 ‘Olympic Destroyer’
Hackers attack the Winter Olympics, during the opening ceremony in South Korea. Who is responsible? Fingers point to North Korea but it has joined forces with its neighbour and even sent a team. Why would they want to sabotage it? What’s going on?
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S2.4 Fire and fury
"Something was collapsing inside me.” A top North Korean diplomat questions his commitment to the regime. And an adventure ends in tragedy for the American student, Otto Warmbier. We hear from the doctor who joined the mission to bring him home from Pyongyang.
Customer Reviews
Amazing but feels unfinished
The entire coverage, the presentation, the script everything is extremely well executed, just loved it. This is my first podcast show which I’ve gone through at a stretch( few weeks), I used any and every free moment of mine to complete this and it was worth it. Just one thing I felt on the entire s1 & s2 at no point there was any convincing matter/evidence presented that it’s the North Korean group behind these attacks and that’s what makes me feel it’s unfinished. Maybe the group is really too smart to leave any chance out trace. But simply brilliant. Great work guys.
Amazing podcast
Simply unparalleled. I follow North Korea and the Lazarus group very closely, but I got to learn so many new things from this show
Great show
I heard this story before years back. Personally I tried to get as much information as i can from the internet. Because I found it so fascinating how a country gets involved in such actions. But there a heck lot of things I got to know for this podcast. They described everything in detailed and interesting way. Thank you team...