Hacked Podcast
1) 2025 Chatty Chat Year in Review
It’s the 2025 Chatty Chat year in review friends! We’re diving into a big old pile of stories from the past year and speculating on what’s to come in 2026. If you’re wondering where this sits on the "...Show More
2) Inside the Smishing Triad
A deep dive into Lighthouse, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to millions of scam texts worldwide, and the sprawling “smishing triad” ecosystem built around it. With security researcher Ford Me...Show More
3) The Gayborhood
For the last few years, Grindr has branded itself as the global gayborhood—a digital safe space for queer communities. But a series of European investigations raised serious questions about how the ap...Show More
4) How Much of Facebook’s Revenue Is Scam Ads—And Other Chat Worthy Questions
It’s a chatty chat. I repeat, this one's a chatty chat. Today we’re digging into the big weird questions on our desk: what percentage of Meta’s revenue allegedly comes from knowingly running scam ads,...Show More
How Much of Facebook’s Revenue Is Scam Ads—And Other Chat Worthy Questions
1:29:29 | Nov 16th, 2025
5) BADBOX 2.0
Hh hey maybe don't buy that $14 projector off amazon. In this episode, we dive into the sequel nobody asked for: BADBOX 2.0 — the return of last year’s botnet built out of bargain-bin Android gadgets...Show More
6) The SIM Farm
The story of a massive swatting hoax campaign across the US that helped take down a piece of cybercrime infrastructure in the heart of New York. That and a big rambling chatty chat about Tilly Norwood...Show More
7) The Banxico Heist and a High Wire Act of Solo Podcasting
The question: can one host of a podcast that was planning to do a chatty chat episode proceed at the last minute while the other host is unfortunately out sick? Wish our dear pal Scott a speedy recove...Show More
8) Will the Real Velvet Sundown Please Stand Up?
The story of a hoax within a hoax within a hoax within an AI soft rock band. That and a bunch of other stories about technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
9) Gamescom 2025
Reboundergame.com ( if you wanna wishlist our work in progress game on Steam <3 ) A weird little road episode intro, a little self promotion, and some classic chatty chat to follow. Learn more ...Show More
10) From Street to State
We discuss the rise of China’s early patriotic hacking scene, and a new report that unravels how some of its most skilled members eventually found their way into more formal, state-aligned cyber opera...Show More