The Lazarus Heist S2: 8. Bitcoin bandits

The most daring bank theft ever attempted? From hacking Hollywood to a billion-dollar plot. North Korea stands accused but says it had nothing to do with it and it’s part of the United States’ attempts to tarnish its image. Premieres 19 April 2021. A true crime investigation with ... Show More

“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? #LazarusHeist 

<p>$1.5 billion disappears in minutes. But what follows reveals North Korea’s expanding reach — from elite hackers to soldiers on the battlefield.</p><p>The audacious attack was on the ByBit crypto exchange in February 2025. Investigators say North Korean hackers the Lazarus Grou ... Show More

What happens when an authoritarian state runs its security services like an organised crime syndicate? Why did a group of North Korean cyber criminals gamble away vast sums of stolen money in the casinos of Las Vegas? And did Kim Jong Un's spies get away with their billion dollar ... Show More

This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: A wealthy developer worth over $150 million is accused of hiring multiple murder crews to kill his estranged wife before he was found dead in an FBI raid.  Gerald Griggs joins host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our p ... Show More

<p>A social media blogger is tied up in her home and her husband is abducted, and later found dead. Police soon have a web of suspects, and learn that appearances and the truth can be far from the same.</p><p> </p><p>View source material and photos for this episode at: <a href="h ... Show More

The bonus episode today, is the fourth of my regular monthly conversations with my good friend Stuart, the host of the British Murders Podcast. Once again, we sat down to chat about local, national and international crimes which have really made an impression with us. We discusse ... Show More

Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Pierogi runs the ScammerPayback YouTube channel & uses his cybersecurity skills to catch and expose scammers, infiltrate their networks, and gather information to expose them and recover stolen fu ... Show More

<p>November 7th, 2003. Hong Kong, China. Police found the body of 40-year-old investment banker Robert Kissel wrapped in a carpet in his family’s storage unit. Suspicion turned to his wife Nancy, who stood to gain around $18 million from her husband’s estate.</p><p>For bonus epis ... Show More

Today's episode is on Brazilian Billionaire CEO entrepreneur Marcos Matsunaga, murdered and stuffed inside of a suitcase. But who could have done such an awful thing? For a while police thought it might be a kidnapping and ransom case, but as time went on.. the truth came out.Tri ... Show More

Buried on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, Shwe Kokko is a shimmering city of skyscrapers, casinos and fresh-laid highways. But peek a little closer and you’ll see why it has become one of the world’s criminal capitals — from razor-wire fences to keep in thousands of enslaved ... Show More

Arno Funke, known by his alias "Dagobert," was a German extortionist who gained notoriety in the late 1980s and early 1990s for his inventive and non-violent blackmail schemes. A failed cartoonist and sign painter, Funke turned to crime in 1988, planting bombs in luxury departmen ... Show More

Michael Miske came from a broken home through years of petty crime to lead a gang of lost boys in Honolulu, cornering its drug scene and befriending cops to build an empire of pain in the Aloha State. But when Miske’s son slammed his car into a truck and died, it sent the kingpin ... Show More