Profile for Drug cartels
Finance: $10M is not unusual - they don’t like to spend it.
Time and Effort: Often several people hired full time.
Group Size: 100-50,000 (including dealer network)
Other resources: Expert smugglers, lots of guns, drugs, politicians and police in their pockets, often insiders who are hooked or being extorted.
Physical violence, murder, extortion, drugs, and all other methods of generating and exploiting human weakness are used - along with some technical means typically hired out or gleaned from convicted computer criminals who join them.