Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Welcome to Cyberism's malicious life. In the world of drug trafficking, cocaine is gold.

When a single gram is sometimes worth $360,000, a drug smuggling operation can easily yield millions of dollars in profit.

Of course drug dealing isn't easy.

Border crossings are routinely checked for drug smugglers and international flight is highly protected.

A couple of years ago, the members of an international crime ring came up with a devilishly brilliant idea.

Fill tuna cans with cocaine in Ecuador, place the cans inside a container and send the container

on a ship to Belgium.

Since Tuna cans are completely sealed, who could ever find the concealed drugs?

According to the plan, the drugs will be thrown overboard next to the Belgian shore,

and there a local team will sneak the precious cargo into the European market.

Quote, I have a cargo ship with a Captain Ona's side too.

They want to throw over the load as they leave, wrote one of the conspirators in a text sent from a special clandestine smartphone.

Once the pilot boat leaves, we'll send a message and they'll throw it right away. Can you do it?

And if so, what's your fee? Yes, we can definitely catch it, replies a second conspirator.

They charge a 20% fee.

A multi-million dollar drug deal was being finalized in these texts without the use of any code words.

Both parties used incriminating language.

After all, they thought they were safe. The instant messaging app they were using was supposed to be

the holy grail of criminal communication across the world. An end-to-end encrypted

communication tool completely secure from government eavesdropping.

But unbeknownst to them, someone else was listening. Something was rotten in the state of Belgium and it

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