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The ransomware hunting team : a band of misfits' improbable crusade to save the world from cybercrime / Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden.
TITLE:
The ransomware hunting team : a band of misfits' improbable crusade to save the world from cybercrime / Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden.
Alternate Title:
Band of misfits' improbable crusade to save the world from cybercrime
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Physical Description:
355 p.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374603304