Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime

Cybersecurity Tactics to Outsmart Hackers and Disarm Scammers

De: Eric O'Neill

Narrado por: Eric O'Neill

National security strategist and former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O’Neill exposes how nefarious cybercriminals relentlessly attempt to access your data and wallet, and arms you with his proven tactics for spotting and neutralizing cyberthreats to protect yourself, your family, and your business.

Cybercriminals, domestic and foreign, are launching attacks day and night using malware, phishing scams, deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and other unscrupulous schemes designed to steal your data and hold it hostage. When they win, it costs nations, businesses, and individuals trillions of dollars annually.

It’s possible to fight back, but it’ll take more than a strong password. Drawing on his years of experience as an FBI spy hunter and national security strategist, Eric O’Neill casts light on these malicious actors’ tactics for stealing personal data and exploiting victims. Armed with this knowledge, O’Neill shares his method—called PAID—that you can use to defend yourself and stop attackers in their tracks:

• Prepare: Pinpoint your most critical data, identify where it resides and who can access it, and build your defenses around it.
• Assess: Continuously reassess your security and apply counterintelligence tactics to identify scams and cyberattacks..
• Investigate: Stay educated and hunt the threat before the threat hunts you.
• Decide: Using your new aptitude, make smart, rapid decisions under pressure..

Written by a top expert in the field, Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime offers easy-to-follow steps for staving off cyberattacks, securing data, and keeping private information safe in an increasingly digital and dizzying world.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2025 Eric O'Neill (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

A master spy-catchers must read. Period. The end.

I am 60% done with Mr. O’Neill’s book and will keep this review the same when finished, but will leave thoughts on the book in its entirety. I am not compensated for my comments and paid for the book with a credit.

Okay, that being said, let’s get one thing straight. This isn’t your average, dry “how to stay safe online” audiobook that tells you to use a longer password and call it a day. I have read hundreds of books on Cybersecurity as it's not only my passion, but what I have a college degree in.

Listening to Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime is more like sitting in a bar for hours with a very smart, slightly intense, and justifiably paranoid friend who actually knows what he’s talking about—and he’s telling you, in meticulous detail, exactly how the digital world is built to ruin you.

And the best part? The “friend” in this case is Eric O’Neill.

If that name doesn’t ring a bell, it should. This isn’t some academic or tech-bro theorist. This is the actual, real-life FBI “ghost” who was put in a room with Robert Hanssen and helped build the case that took down the most damaging spy in U.S. history. He did in a matter of months what the FBI couldn't do in nearly two decades.

So, when this guy writes a book about spies, lies, and cybercrime, you tend to listen. His first book, Gray Day, was the incredible “how I caught Hanssen” story. This book is the “okay, now here’s what I’ve learned since, and here’s why you should be terrified (but in a productive way).It’s not just a list of scary things, though. He presents it as a “survival manual.
This is one of those rare cases where the author narrating is a 1,000% win. Every once in a while, he has a slight hesitation, which I feel adds to the reality of his topics. You're not getting a smooth-voiced actor performing the book. You're getting the guy who lived it, breathing an extra layer of urgency and authenticity into every single word. You can hear his dry frustration with corporate "security theater." You can hear the genuine "I've-seen-this-crap-first-hand"

For the first time in a while, I'm very much so looking forward to finishing this book and we'll leave my final review underneath this.
All the best!