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Threats are part of the thrill In the high-stakes world of cyber spies, trojans, and ransomware. So grab your hoodie, here is the SPYSCAPE countdown of the 15 ultimate hacker and cyber crime movies and series to stream right now.
A hacker-turned-security-professional (Robert Redford) must deal with his past when it comes back to haunt him. Considering the movie was made in 1992, Sneakers does an admirable job of exploring modern-day issues including mass surveillance and the NSA. (Prime Video, Apple TV, GooglePlay, YouTube, Vudu, Microsoft, HBO Max)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara - and its sequel The Girl in the Spider's Web with Claire Foy - are sleek, stark, stylish, and gothic. Some say the original version with the incredible Noomi Rapace is even better. Keep an eye out for the series based on Lisbeth Salander. (Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, Microsoft, GooglePlay, YouTube)
If you like retro hacker films, WarGames should be near the top of your list. Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and Ally Sheedy star in this Cold War thriller about a teenage hacker who gains access to a US military supercomputer. (Apple TV, Prime Video, GooglePlay, Microsoft, Vudu, YouTube, AMC+)
Cinematic, risk-taking, and creative, Mr. Robot is a stand-out series with top-quality performances from a cast that includes Rami Malek as Elliot, a cyber-security company programmer by day and vigilante hacker by night. Carly Chaikin and Christian Slater also star in this interactable gem loaded with Easter eggs in an alternative reality. (GooglePlay, Apple TV, Vudu, Prime Video, Netflix in some countries)
The story revolves around Elliot Alderson, a talented hacker and cybersecurity expert who suffers from social anxiety disorder and clinical depression. His life turns upside down when Mr. Robot invites him to join a group of hacktivists on a mission to destroy the largest financial conglomerate in the world.
The movie reveals the story of a man whose brilliance deserves worldwide recognition. He built the machine that cracked the German Enigma code and helped the Allies win World War II, shortening the war by more than two years and saving over 14 million lives.
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is picking up the pieces of his life and career after a costly lawsuit was brought against him by businessman Hans-Erik Wennerstrm. A wealthy man approaches him to investigate the presumed murder of his grandniece, Helen, who disappeared 40 years ago, in exchange for evidence against Wennerstrm.
This is where he puts on a digital mask and turns into a professional hacker. He later meets other online disruptors, and together they create CLAY (Clowns Laughing at You), a community on a mission to hack and humiliate large corporations.
In GoldenEye, former allies-turned-enemies James Bond (Agent 007) and Alec Trevelyan (Agent 006) square off in an epic showdown as Bond attempts to stop a nuclear weapon, GoldenEye, from destroying the world.
Martin is a computer hacker who leads a team of specialists that tests the security of multiple San Francisco-based companies. Two National Security Agency officers approach him, who want him to steal a newly invented decoder.
High school student David Lightman is a tech whiz who graduated from minor hacks like changing his school grades to getting involved in starting a war. He sets out to find new video games to play on his computer and settles on Global Thermonuclear War.
David starts playing with an unknown person online, unaware that they have sinister motives. He unknowingly finds a backdoor into a government supercomputer, causing it to activate the nation's nuclear weapons. David realizes that the lines between reality and the game itself are blurred, but is it too late?
The movie lays out the nuts and bolts of the Facebook data breach scandal with Cambridge Analytica. Thought-provoking, powerful, and even scary, the documentary will shock you into facing the reality of our online lives and make you think twice before revealing any personal data.
At the age of 13, he hacked NASA's servers and pulled out CAD files for the real Space Shuttle Columbia. Just to give you an idea of how genius this guy is, Brian teams up with other geeks to create a community that solves cybercrime.
A hacker causes the explosion of a nuclear plant in Chai Wan, Hong Kong. Soon after, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange gets hacked, affecting soy futures prices. The FBI and Chinese government learned the hack was performed with a remote access tool.
Captain Chen Dawai of the People's Liberation Army cyber warfare unit is tasked with finding the hacker. Through a series of events, Nicholas Hathaway, his former college roommate, with whom he created the code in the tool, is granted temporary release to assist with the investigation. However, he wants his sentence commuted if the hacker is captured.
Dawai also puts together a small team, which drops like flies during the mission. Only two people made it out alive. Find out who they are and whether Nicholas goes back to prison. Stream Blackhat and other movies like it on Netflix.
You don't need to be a cyber security expert to love watching hackers wreak havoc! Cybercrime and hacking movies have a special place in the world of cyber security. In many cases, they've pushed the envelope regarding what was possible and created an entire hacker culture that was hell-bent on replicating what they saw in the movies when they were kids.
Off the back of movies like Wargames and Terminator 2, security researchers lined up to see if ATM hacking was possible, and sure enough, it was! Barnaby Jack presented research at Blackhat in 2010 showing that ATM hacking was possible and coined the term Jackpotting, which is when an ATM empties its cash drawers.
In "The Beekeeper", Adam Clay, a former member of the spy organization known as the "Beekeepers," is impacted by the negative effects of a successful phishing attack against his elderly landlady. As a result, Adam takes it upon himself to find those responsible and take them to justice, discovering a web of corruption along the way.
This movie portrays a real-world voice phishing (i.e., vishing) attack that results in the theft of money from an elderly lady. Financially motivated phishing attacks against vulnerable and elderly individuals have grown in popularity over the past few years, particularly given that almost everyone has a phone or some form of access to the internet, and not everyone understands the tactics and techniques used by criminals to socially engineer and trick potential victims.
In "Kandahar", Tom Harris, an undercover CIA agent, pretends to be a repairman for a Swiss telecom company that has a contract to provide internet services for a town in Iran that also has a secret underground nuclear refinement facility nearby.
During the repair of an internet line, Tom installs a wiretap, which allows the CIA to intercept and modify all communications going to and from the nuclear research facility, which is then used to implant a trojan that maliciously infects the facility nuclear refinement systems, causing them to explode.
This movie shows a lot of similarities to the Stuxnet trojan that infected Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010, causing physical damage to centrifuges, which ultimately slowed down Iran's nuclear program.
In "The Fate of the Furious", a protagonist called Cipher is introduced who is a self-proclaimed "Master Hacker". During the course of the movie, Cipher performs several hacks. First, she hacks the traffic control system within a city and wreaks havoc, causing hundreds of cars to crash. Then, she hacks into a Russian Nuclear Submarine in an attempt to escape but is ultimately thwarted by Dominic Toretto.
While many of the hacks displayed in this movie are over-the-top and unlikely to be executed by a single individual, it does show the potential impact of nation-state-sponsored cyber attacks, where advanced and persistent threat actors can dedicate time and significant financial resources to inflict damage on opposing nations.
In "The Social Network", several scenes depict elements of hacking. When Mark Zuckerberg was still a student at Harvard University, he hacked the Harvard student registry database to collect personal information on freshmen and then released a website called "FaceMash," where women freshmen are ranked based on their looks. Later, Mark runs a capture-the-flag hacking competition to choose who their first intern will be.
This movie demonstrates the importance of protecting personal information and ensuring appropriate safeguards are put in place to ensure tools can't be used to scrape information at scale. The professional networking platform LinkedIn suffered a data breach in 2021 where attackers scraped 700 million LinkedIn profiles, collecting names, email addresses, photos, and more, because appropriate safeguards weren't put in place to prevent automated profile scraping.
In "The Matrix Reactions," Thomas Anderson, also known as Neo, is living a seemingly normal life as a successful video game designer. However, it's discovered that this is, in fact, a simulated reality, which is exposed by a rogue AI called Bugs. Bugs exploits a series of vulnerabilities in multiple simulated realities to help Neo realize his own reality isn't real.
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