hacker : HUNTER (2019)
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Cashing In: A digital bank heist in four acts
2019 • 4 Episodes
Season 1 of hacker : HUNTER premiered on August 21, 2019.
While criminals around the world try to get to the money in cash-machines with hammers, explosives, excavators or other heavy gear, the Carbanak gang found a more elegant and stealth way. They would hack into bank networks and monitor the activities there until they understood how to trigger the machines remotely to spill out all the money.
End of October: WannaCry, the Marcus Hutchins Story
2019 • 3 Episodes
Season 2 of hacker : HUNTER premiered on October 25, 2019.
In 2017, the WannaCry epidemic swept around the globe. Malicious software that spread incredibly fast and encrypted computers, making no difference between victims. A cybersecurity researcher registered a URL which he found in the code of the program – and suddenly the epidemic stopped. Our second mini-series will tell the story of WannaCry, the researcher who stopped it and will ask where the modern, digital frontier is between good and evil, between Blackhat and Whitehat.