1. A new franchising opportunity

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 UnknownSurveillance video of REvil's hacks Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices