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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

A thrilling true story of Max Butler, a genius hacker who lived as white-hat “Max Vision” by day and cybercriminal “Iceman” by night, seizing control of the online fraud underworld.

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Aug 11, 2025
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In this edition of Cyber Book Club, we explore Kevin Poulsen’s gripping account of how one man staged a hostile takeover of the global online fraud market, amassing millions in stolen credit card numbers and running a sprawling criminal empire. Butler didn’t just join the cyber underworld, he restructured it, hacking fellow hackers, consolidating black-…

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