¶ Intro / Opening
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¶ The Lazarus Heist: Criminal Origins
and try to steal $1 billion. How would you pull it off? Well, first you need to assemble the right crew. These attackers have no fear. They started out on the streets. Stolen cars. counterfeit pharmaceuticals, weapons, crystal meth deal. They would have killed me had they found out. But then they took their crime online. They have their own kind of laptops. They kind of live in what you would call like a hacker warehouse or a hacker dorm. The door opened. It was just dead silence.
And that's when I discovered that this was known as the Hacker Hotel. They turned the internet into a battleground. A holy cow moment. This is what they've stolen. Rampaging through. The network. There was chaos. Leaving victims' lives in ruins. Googling myself and my legs getting like numb. It's kind of like too late. Forever I'm paying for it. It was over for me. Then they go off to a bank.
¶ Executing the Billion-Dollar Cyber Theft
No one in their right mind, no cyber criminal, had tried to transfer $1 billion. How in the world did this happen? It was astounding. They spirit away the cash. Now it's laundered. Now nobody knows where that money came from. It's just casino winnings. and you can go and do what you want with it. It was almost like a perfect crime, meticulously planned and executed. They leave investigators in the dust. What do you mean they've disappeared? A terrifying incident.
Probably one of the most terrifying that I've ever seen. The sheer size and scale and enormity of this attack. I just saw the entire financial markets grinding to a halt.
¶ North Korea Accused; Podcast Debuts
Behind it all, they say, is one man. The mob boss, the soprano, Pablo Escobar. Also, the head of state overseeing a nuclear weapons program. He's actually rational and he shouldn't be underestimated. But he calls the allegations a farce aimed at tarnishing his country's image. good-looking manager of the branch, the guy who disappeared. I mean, you name it, you got it all. It may sound like a Hollywood film, but it's all true.
It's the story of The Lazarus Heist. I'm Geoff White. And I'm Jean Lee. And The Lazarus Heist is our brand new podcast from the BBC World Service. We're releasing episodes weekly. And the story is going to unfold over 10 episodes. If wherever you get your podcast allows, follow or subscribe so you get every episode automatically. Episode one will be available from the 19th of April, 2021.
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