The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable
Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime | Paperback

Renee Dudley | Daniel Golden

Picador | Picador

True Crime / Cybercrime / Computers / Security - Viruses &
Malware / Law / Forensic Science

Release date Oct 24, 2023

"A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric
misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our
time.

"What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Renee Dudley
and Daniel Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware
and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulously
reported, this book is impossible to put down." -Doug Stanton,
New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse
Soldiers

"Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is
working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our
time. You've probably never heard of them. But if you work for
a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or
simply cherish your digital data, you may be painfully familiar
with the team's sworn enemy: ransomware. Again and again, an
unlikely band of misfits, mostly self-taught and often
struggling to make ends meet, have outwitted the underworld of
hackers who lock computer networks and demand huge payments in
return for the keys.

"The Ransomware Hunting Team traces the adventures of these
unassuming heroes and how they have used their skills to save
millions of ransomware victims from paying billions of dollars
to criminals. Working tirelessly from bedrooms and back
offices, and refusing payment, they've rescued those whom the
often hapless FBI has been unwilling or unable to help.
Foremost among them is Michael Gillespie, a cancer survivor and
cat lover who got his start cracking ransomware while working
at a Nerds on Call store in the town of Normal, Illinois. Other
teammates include the brilliant, reclusive Fabian Wosar, a high
school dropout from Germany who enjoys bantering with the
attackers he foils, and his protAcgAc, the British computer
science prodigy Sarah White. Together, they have established
themselves as the most effective force against an escalating
global threat. This book follows them as they put their health,
personal relationships, and financial security on the line to
navigate the technological and moral challenges of combating
digital hostage taking.

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