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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

It seems like we hear about new cyberattacks almost every day. The targets used to be just big companies and government agencies. Now they are focused on you. Every Tuesday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston dives deep into the world of cyber and intelligence. You’ll hear stories about everything from ransomware to misinformation to the people shaping the cyber world, from hacking masterminds to the people who try to stop them. Click Here. Produced by The Record Media Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices