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The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
Maybe someday
43
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
33/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
October 25, 2022
The story of a band of volunteer cybersecurity experts who use their computer skills to crack ransomware and help victims of cybercrime.
What The Reviewers Say
Dudley and Golden dig deeply into the emotional and financial tolls on people like Gillespie, who insists on offering his services to victims at no charge.
Though the general idea is easy to grasp—criminals encrypt the target’s files, then ask for money to decrypt them again—the nuts and bolts of cybercrime are often baffling to the uninitiated. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, a pair of journalists, have written a good introduction to the subject. They focus as much on people as on the computers.
Explains to the reader a major struggle at the center of the fight against ransomware.
Intriguing.
