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    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.   
      
   USA buyers, support the local bookshop of your choice here:   
      
   http://bookshop.org/a/93260/9781250872609   
      
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