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1. A new franchising opportunity

Feb 08, 202223 min
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Episode description

Our first episode is an origin story. Ransomware-as-a-service got its start in an unlikely place: Texas. We tell the story of how a Russian cyber gang called REvil went toe-to-toe with a bunch of Texas towns and emerged with a new business model.

SHOW NOTES:

An interview with REvil’s Unknown

Surveillance video of REvil's hacks

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