The enigmatic Shadow Brokers, who seemingly disappeared in January of 2017, would break their silence just three months later.

Following the destruction of a Syrian airbase in April 2017, the Shadow Brokers returned to continue their campaign of cyber-terror. They lashed out at President Trump (and others) in deranged posts online, and began to leak more exploits and tools allegedly stolen from the NSA's most secretive units.

This time, however, the intelligence they leaked would go on to have devastating effects in the real world. Many of these exploits would go on to be utilized by cyber-criminal and hackers, and the chaos they created would cost billions of dollars in recovery efforts all around the globe...


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Special thanks to: Nicki (Strictly Homicide) and voice actor Mark Boyd for lending their voices to this episode

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