Bayrob
6/2/20261 hr 37 min
It started with a fake car listing on eBay.
What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime operations the FBI had ever traced. Custom malware. Opsec off the charts. Fleets of infected computers mining cryptocurrency for someone else. Millions of dollars siphoned from victims who had no idea.
This is the story of Bayrob and the three men from Romanian who were behind it. And the long, strange road that led American investigators to their door.
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First 90 secondsJack Rhysider· Host0:00
Hey, it's Jack, host of the show. What a fun show this has been to make over the years. I'm having such a blast doing this, and I think this episode is one that sent me on an adventure that I'll never forget. It's a big and wild story, so let's not waste any time. [instrumental music] These are true stories from the dark side of the internet. I'm Jack Rhysider. This is Darknet Diaries. [instrumental music] This episode is sponsored by Maze. Security teams are drowning in vulnerabilities. 40,000 common vulnerabilities and exposures, AKA CVEs, dropped in 2025 alone, with attackers being able to exploit new vulns in days, not weeks. Our backlogs are a ticking time bomb. Engineers do not have enough time to manually triage them all. But what if they did? That's the question Maze was created to answer. Maze uses AI agents to triage and remediate cloud vulnerabilities. Traditional vuln scans use rigid rule sets, like if CVE is on a publicly exposed asset, make it a critical. But that's silly. Maze's AI agents investigate every vulnerability in your cloud the