Accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars – Russia’s most wanted hackers. Just who are Evil Corp? In season 3 of Cyber Hack, we follow the years’ long trail with investigators as they try to track down the man alleged to be at the centre of it all, hacker Maksim Yakubets.

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發佈日期：2025/10/17 上午8:30:00

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They steal billions: Cyber Hack investigates the alleged cyber gangs and the heists and hacks they’re accused of carrying out. No one is said to be safe. From Hollywood studios, to international banks, from crypto exchanges to small businesses and health care companies, law enforcement agencies say they cause chaos around the globe. Who will be next? And where is the money going?

Latest season: Evil Corp. The Russian Evil Corp is accused of being a family crime gang, responsible for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. Law enforcement agencies say they are “the most pervasive cybercrime group to ever have operated”. No one is off limits – not even a group of nuns in Chicago.

Previously on Cyber Hack: The Lazarus Heist. This hacking group is said to be behind the biggest crypto heist in history, stealing billions of dollars in the process. Investigators blame North Korea’s state-backed hackers The Lazarus Group, and say the stolen money is being used to finance its nuclear weapons and missile development programs. Pyongyang denies involvement. Among the Lazarus Group’s many targets are Hollywood’s Sony Entertainment and the Bank of Bangladesh. ATMs are cleaned out of money, while its operatives live double lives in a hacker hotel. But where does the money trail lead?

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2025-10-23

Very limited perspective

As the show goes on it strays further and further away from any pretension of objectivity. Not once is policy towards North Korea questioned, nor any non-Western perspectives. Why are the UAE happy to keep North Korean hackers? Why did China agree to tighten sanctions? Not a word on any of that, it’s just from a comfortable Western perspective that portrays North Koreans as naive children with no capacity to think for themselves or act out of anything except fear. Also, John Bolton, seriously???

Internationally, North Korea is just not that special. What it stole from a couple of developing countries I pales in comparison to the wealth that is extracted (legally and illegally) through debt, corruption, etc. and let’s please not pretend like North Korea is more dangerous to world peace than the US. North Korean weapons deals are described like crimes, when the US, UK and EU export multitudes more to all kinds of shady places. It would be a lot more interesting to come at North Korea from an empathetic, understanding perspective - that’s not the same as justification or making excuses, and far more interesting than the basic portrayal of them as strange, irrational and crazy.

2021-06-21

Good potential but with some mistakes

Nice show, but with each episode I believe less and less.

Strange when they talk about transfer from Bangladesh to Philippines the person in the background is talking in Indonesian language while they never mentioned Indonesia in the show???