NPR’s series of stories and audio about life, cyber and war in Ukraine Intrepid reporter tried to gamble his way through a hacked Vegas, and documented the software gore, tired casino workers, and strip club bouncers he encountered along the way The result of his trip was a piece that showed just how bad MGM was hit, resulting in a “nightmare” for casino workers, as Koebler put it. Jason Koebler, former editor in chief of VICE Motherboard and now one of the co-founders of the workers-owned outlet 404 Media, had the smart idea of flying to Las Vegas and seeing the chaos with his own eyes. This was one of the most talked about cyberattacks of the year and several publications stayed on the story. In September, an unholy alliance of Russian cybercriminals and Western teenagers with exceptional social engineering skills allegedly hacked and took down MGM’s casinos in Las Vegas, causing widespread disruption. 404 Media reporter gambled in MGM’s casinos during ransomware attack Sit on a comfy chair and get engrossed in this must-read. In this lengthy piece, Andy Greenberg profiles the three young hackers and tells the untold story of their lives, from teenage computer nerds, to accomplished cybercriminals - and, in the end, to reformed cybersecurity professionals. As it turned out, that was the work of three enterprising young hackers, who had built one of the most effective distributed denial-of-service tools ever created. East Coast, you probably remember that day when major websites like Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, PayPal, Slack and hundreds of others stopped working for a couple of hours. If you were on the internet in October 2016 and lived on the U.S. Three young hackers behind the web-killing Mirai botnet finally tell their story

Now that both Cox and I have moved on from Motherboard, we at TechCrunch are picking up the cyber jealousy list to once again list the best cybersecurity stories of the year - and the ones we were the most jealous of. Our original inspiration was Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List, an ongoing compendium of the best stories published in other outlets as picked by Bloomberg reporters and editors. It wasn’t just a way to tip our hats at our friendly competitors by pointing to other publications’ stories, we were giving our readers a fuller picture of what had happened in the world of cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance in the year that was just ending. Back in 2018, my former colleague at VICE Motherboard Joseph Cox and I started publishing a list of the best cybersecurity stories that were published elsewhere.

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