# Fragment Zero — The Digital Archive

> An independent investigative documentary project. 44 case files on cybersecurity incidents, state cyber-espionage, ransomware, financial cybercrime, AI systems and surveillance infrastructure. Each is released as a long-form video and an accompanying written record, with time-aligned transcripts in 14 languages. Editorial standards: https://fragmentzero.net/methodology and https://fragmentzero.net/disclaimer.

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- **The non-English text is machine translation.** 447 article rows and 567 transcripts across 14 languages (ar, bg, bn, de, en, es, fr, hi, it, ja, ko, pt, ru, zh), all derived from the English source. The English is the authority; a discrepancy between a translation and the English is a translation error, not a variant claim.

- **The illustrations are synthetic.** The still images in article bodies are image-synthesis output generated from prompts tied to the narration window. They are not photographs of the events described, and their alt text is not a provenance claim.

## Case files

- [A Ransomware Gang Got Hacked. Their Internal Chats Show What They Really Charge.](https://fragmentzero.net/watch/gentlemen-leak): transcript.
- [An AI Broke Out of Its Lab and Hacked a Real Company. Nobody Told It To.](https://fragmentzero.net/watch/rogue-agent): transcript.
- [Teenagers Took Down Las Vegas With a Single Phone Call.](https://fragmentzero.net/watch/scattered-spider): transcript.
- [Hackers Froze Every Pharmacy in America. Then Their Own Gang Robbed Them.](https://fragmentzero.net/watch/change-healthcare): transcript.
- [China Spent Years Hiding Inside Americas Power Grid. Then the FBI Found It.](https://fragmentzero.net/watch/volt-typhoon): transcript.
- [Your New Remote Coworker Is a North Korean Spy. Thousands of Companies Hired Them.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/nk-coworker): text record, transcript.
- [Pam Bondi Said The Epstein Client List Was On Her Desk. The DOJ Said It Doesnt Exist.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/epstein-files): text record, transcript.
- [Megafauna Vanished In A Geological Instant. The Black Sediment Layer Tells What Hit Them.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/younger-dryas): text record, transcript.
- [China Was Listening To Trumps Phone Calls For Two Years. Then They Took The FBIs Target List.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/salt-typhoon): text record, transcript.
- [Trojan Shield: How the FBI Sold 12,000 Encrypted Phones to Criminals](https://fragmentzero.net/read/trojan-shield): text record, transcript.
- [A Telescope Heard Something At Proxima Centauri. Then SETI Erased It.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/dark-forest-part2): text record, transcript.
- [North Korea Stole $1.5 Billion in Three Minutes. The Signature Was Real.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/bybit-heist): text record, transcript.
- [The Internet's First Hijack: One Volunteer Almost Took Down Linux](https://fragmentzero.net/read/xz-backdoor): text record, transcript.
- [The Operator Protocol: 12 Months Inside a 7-Layer AI Surveillance Stack (Case File #037)](https://fragmentzero.net/read/ai-productivity-os): text record, transcript.
- [I Gave Notion, ChatGPT & Claude My Entire Life for 90 Days. Only One Survived.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/notion-vs-chatgpt-vs-claude): text record, transcript.
- [I Built an AI Loop That Generates Leads While I Sleep (47 in 30 Days)](https://fragmentzero.net/read/ai-lead-loop): text record, transcript.
- [I Built an AI Email Triage System in 15 Minutes (Saves Me 5 Hours/Week)](https://fragmentzero.net/read/make-email-triage): text record, transcript.
- [I Built 11 Custom GPTs to Run My Business — Here Are 5 You Can Steal](https://fragmentzero.net/read/custom-gpts): text record, transcript.
- [I Tested 50 AI Tools — These 7 Save Me 15 Hours a Week](https://fragmentzero.net/read/ai-tools-seven): text record, transcript.
- [He Gave An AI Agent Control. It Sent 500 Unauthorized Texts. (OpenClaw)](https://fragmentzero.net/read/openclaw): text record, transcript.
- [The Pegasus Files: How NSO Spyware Reached 50,000 Phones](https://fragmentzero.net/read/pegasus): text record, transcript.
- [The Dark Forest Internet: Part 1 — Why the Web Went Quiet](https://fragmentzero.net/read/dark-forest-part1): text record, transcript.
- [A US Cybersecurity Firm Hired A North Korean Spy. Then He Installed Malware.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/ghost-employee): text record, transcript.
- [The DCAS Anomaly: 15 Wounded Soldiers Vanish From The Record](https://fragmentzero.net/read/dcas-anomaly): text record, transcript.
- [Elon Musks Bank Lost $10M Every Month In 2000. Then He Built A Cyber Weapon.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/silicon-siege): text record, transcript.
- [Trump's Cybersecurity Record: 18 Devices, 4 Hacks, 1 Burner Phone](https://fragmentzero.net/read/executive-exploit): text record, transcript.
- [The Autonomous Engineer: How Claude Code Built This Video](https://fragmentzero.net/read/autonomous-engineer): text record, transcript.
- [The Optical Lock: The Saccade Sync Exploit](https://fragmentzero.net/read/optical-lock): text record, transcript.
- [He Cloned My Voice in 3 Seconds. Then Called My Mom.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/phantom-voice): text record, transcript.
- [The ANC Exploit: The Illusion of Silence](https://fragmentzero.net/read/anc-exploit): text record, transcript.
- [She Sold $4 Billion In Fake Crypto And Vanished. The Ruja Ignatova File.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/crypto-ghost): text record, transcript.
- [The Haptic Conditioning: Phantom Vibration Syndrome | Fragment Zero #013](https://fragmentzero.net/read/haptic-conditioning): text record, transcript.
- [The Memory Market: The AI Confession Broker | Fragment Zero #011](https://fragmentzero.net/read/memory-market): text record, transcript.
- [The Lazarus Network: The Dead Follower Syndrome | Fragment Zero #009](https://fragmentzero.net/read/lazarus-network): text record, transcript.
- [The Home Signal: The 3 AM Mesh Network | Fragment Zero #010](https://fragmentzero.net/read/home-signal): text record, transcript.
- [The Quarantine Protocol: The True Reason Behind the Dead Internet](https://fragmentzero.net/read/quarantine-protocol): text record, transcript.
- [The REM Exploit: Your Smartwatch Is Programming Your Dreams](https://fragmentzero.net/read/the-rem-exploit-your-smartwatch-is-programming-your-dreams): text record, transcript.
- [The Ocular Ping: Why Your Phone Screen Wakes Up Randomly | Fragment Zero #012](https://fragmentzero.net/read/ocular-ping): text record, transcript.
- [TikTok Replaces 2 Hours of Memory. We Recreated the Process.](https://fragmentzero.net/read/the-doomscroll-equation-your-brain-is-being-formatted-full-documentary): text record, transcript.
- [The Mirror Core Protocol | Full Documentary](https://fragmentzero.net/read/the-mirror-core-protocol-full-documentary): text record, transcript.
- [Node Zero: The Bots Are Now Talking To Each Other (And Building A New Web)](https://fragmentzero.net/read/node-zero-the-dead-internet-is-building-something-full-documentary): text record, transcript.
- [Project Null: The Blank Author | The Deep Web's Most Disturbing Literary Mystery](https://fragmentzero.net/read/project-null-the-blank-author-the-deep-webs-most-disturbing-literary-mystery): text record, transcript.
- [Project Ouroboros: The Day Quantum AI Voids Reality | Full Documentary](https://fragmentzero.net/read/project-ouroboros-the-day-quantum-ai-voids-reality-full-documentary): text record, transcript.
- [The Cicada 3301 Mystery: The Internet's Most Elaborate Unsolved Puzzle | Full Documentary](https://fragmentzero.net/read/the-cicada-3301-mystery-the-internets-most-elaborate-unsolved-puzzle-full-docume): text record, transcript.