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How Ransomware Groups Run the Cartel Playbook: Inside the DEA with Aaron Turner
In episode two of this two-part series of Identity Decoded, hosts Roy Akerman and Rob Ainscough continue their conversation with Aaron Turner — this time tracing a surprising parallel between drug cartels and ransomware groups. Aaron was assigned to the US Department of Justice after 9/11 and spent 18 months working with DEA Special Operations Division under Steve Murphy and Javier Peña — the real-life figures behind Netflix's Narcos. He breaks down why both types of criminal organizations are, at their core, transnational, economically rational actors that rely on stolen or assumed…
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