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Financial services’ Amanda Lerner, Ph.D. on Why Russian Is Still the Lingua Franca of Cybercrime
Early cybercrime forums operated almost entirely in Russian, creating a barrier to entry that kept most analysts out. Amanda Lerner, Ph.D., Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst in financial services, broke through with a Yale PhD in Russian literature and the cultural fluency to decode dark web “Ringlish.”
Amanda tells Eli how she went from investigating bitcoin mixing services at the Manhattan DA’s Cyber Intelligence Unit to leading CTI in the financial sector, and why LLMs lower the language barrier but cannot replace the cultural context real threat intelligence requires.
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