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Oct 22, 2026
Financial services’ Amanda Lerner, Ph.D. on Why Russian Is Still the Lingua Franca of Cybercrime
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Eli WoodwardHOST
So, of those cases, which one were you probably most proud of or you think was probably the most complicated?
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13:50Amanda LernerGUEST
I'm going to speak in generalities because I honestly don't know what's been unsealed at this point.
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13:55Amanda LernerGUEST
I haven't followed, you know, the cases as I've left and, you know, done things like start a family.
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14:04Amanda LernerGUEST
while i was at danny which is the district attorney's office so we started mapping out networks of like bitcoin transactions at the time like bitcoin was it right like now there's so many different uh cryptocurrencies and digital currencies uh at the time there was bitcoin and then you know you could use monero but for various reasons a lot of cyber criminals didn't but you know it was really like if you understood bitcoin you were good to go you didn't have to know either anything and so we would We had one investigation where we were closely tracking a mixing service, which is a way to obfuscate attribution, basically, of a Bitcoin transaction on the chain.

Eli WoodwardHOST
So what's the history of that? How did that come about? And basically, what was it about your skill set that ultimately brought you into this career field?