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Ilya Sachkov co-founded the cybersecurity company Group-IB to make the world safe from Russian-speaking cybercriminals. Then he asked Russian authorities to help round them up, and things went spectacularly wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The podcast explores the dangers of an evil chatbot twin that can engage in email scams and create harmful content. It discusses the use of AI in cyber attacks and the potential for AI to combat them. The growing concern of AI-powered impersonation attacks is highlighted, along with the need for AI-based security measures. The podcast also provides updates on cyber and intelligent stories, including hacking casino shuffling machines and the Chinese attack on Microsoft Cloud emails.

A victim of an Orwellian disinformation campaign discusses online abuse faced by women, the lawsuit against Fox News, and the need to hold networks accountable for spreading disinformation.

Putting your data in the cloud used to be seen as the gold standard of information security. Why have your small IT team protect your data when the experts at Microsoft or Google or AWS can do it instead? And then in May, Chinese hackers broke into the Microsoft cloud, exposing not just a flaw in the code, but a glitch in company’s business model as well. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This week, we share an episode from PRX and Inkstick Media’s “Things that Go Boom” podcast about the thousands of miles of fiber optic cable lying at the bottom of the sea. Some 95 percent of the world’s electronic data is traveling through them and cables are taking centerstage in the high-stakes competition between the U.S. and China. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Since our story on spyware in Mexico aired back in March, researchers have discovered a roster of Pegasus spyware infections on the phones of local journalists, activists, and even officials within the Mexican president’s inner circle. This week, we return to our deep dive on the use of spyware in Mexico and the revelation that the army created a secret military intelligence unit dedicated to its use. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

From WBUR's “Endless Thread" podcast, a story on a growing segment of artificial intelligence: immortalizing the dead through predictive AI text and how bots can help us understand grief. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We revisit a sit-down interview we had with NSA contractor Reality Winner shortly after she spent 4 years in prison for passing a single classified document to a reporter. Given all the focus on classified documents and the way they’ve been handled in recent weeks, it seemed a good time to take another look at what happened to Reality. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Two decades after Arab militias first torched villages and killed hundreds of thousands of people in West Darfur, violence has returned to the region. We tell the story of one group of researchers who use open source intelligence, algorithms and satellite imagery in a bid to quell the violence in Sudan. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We go behind the scenes of U.S. Cyber Command’s Hunt Forward Operation in Ukraine. We interviewed half a dozen American cyber warriors who were on the ground in Kyiv, and they provide new details about the effort to defend Ukrainian networks against Russian cyber attacks in the weeks before the war. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices