I was being offered a portion of a potentially large amount of money if I helped cyber criminals access BBC systems through my laptop. A SOC team is a security operations centre - a cyber security team tasked with monitoring threatsSyn said I would be in line for millions. "You'd be surprised at the number of employees who would provide us access," Syn said. They replied with a link to Medusa's darknet address and invited me to contact them through the group's Tox - a secure messaging service loved by cyber criminals. I'm still not entirely sure that Syn knew I was a cyber correspondent and not a cyber security or IT employee.