Geoff White on BEYONDai

Cybercrime is not a technology story but an economy, and it is organised like one. State hacking is the new face of espionage and openly so; the people who do the criminal version largely learned to think in video games, where the whole skill is finding what the other side did not expect. Ransomware now runs as a franchise, the affiliate keeping eighty percent of what a victim pays, and the gangs behind it research a target with the same due diligence an acquirer would run before a takeover. Underneath all of it sits money laundering, without which Geoff White argues none of the rest would happen: the trick is not the theft but mixing dirty cash with clean, which is why criminals care where in society cash still lives. This companion episode brings together Geoff White's conversation, entity by entity. What this episode covers:It's the new face of espionageAccount, or one of my accomplices' accountsWhat we're now seeing is in Southeast AsiaTechnology– actually it starts with processes, business processYou've got three stages in your classic money launderingWherever you see lots of cashThey call themselves post-paid security Geoff White, the investigative journalist covering organised crime and technology, guest of The BEYOND Podcast cybercrime episode; ransomware; business email compromise. Listen to the source episode: Geoff White podcast · Geoff White episode on Apple Podcasts · Geoff White episode on Amazon Music. Read the full story: Geoff White on the full story. This conversation comes from The BEYOND Podcast, hosted by Aleksandra King. Narration is AI-generated. Everything said in the conversation is human. BEYOND network:BEYOND (the podcast)Elliott KingAleksandra King Agency