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Darknet Diaries: Voice Phishing Episodes
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Tangentially relevant to AI safety via voice cloning and deepfake-enabled social engineering episodes; useful for understanding real-world misuse of AI audio synthesis tools in fraud and manipulation contexts.
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Summary
Darknet Diaries is a podcast covering true stories from the dark side of the internet, including hacking, data breaches, cybercrime, and social engineering. Episodes relevant to AI safety include voice phishing (vishing) attacks, which increasingly leverage voice cloning and deepfake audio to manipulate targets. The podcast provides real-world case studies illustrating how social engineering and emerging AI-enabled deception techniques are deployed against individuals and organizations.
Key Points
- •Covers real-world social engineering attacks including voice phishing (vishing) that exploit human psychology rather than technical vulnerabilities
- •Increasingly relevant to AI safety as voice cloning tools lower the barrier for impersonation-based fraud and deception at scale
- •Case studies illustrate how misinformation and manipulation can compromise critical infrastructure and organizational security
- •Provides accessible narrative format making complex attack vectors understandable for non-technical audiences
- •Demonstrates the human-factors dimension of cybersecurity that technical defenses alone cannot address
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| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Cyberweapons Risk | Risk | 91.0 |
| AI-Powered Fraud | Risk | 69.0 |
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### True stories from the dark side of the Internet
This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network. This is Darknet Diaries.
New episodes every first Tuesday of the month.
## [EP 171: Melody Fraud](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/171/)
Mar 3, 2026 \| 69:18
What if the music charts you see aren't real? What if the numbers that define success can be manufactured? We talked to Andrew, a man who has spent his career on both sides of this battle. He once ...
[Ep 171: Melody Fraud](https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/171/)
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