The Ransomware Hunting Team by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden

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 (...)Renee Dudley is a technology reporter at ProPublica. Previously, as an
investigative reporter at Reuters, she was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist
for her work uncovering systematic cheating on college admissions tests. She
started her career at daily newspapers in South Carolina and New England,
and has won numerous journalism honors, including the Eugene S. Pulliam
First Amendment Award. Daniel Golden, a senior editor and reporter at
ProPublica, has won a Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards. He is the
bestselling author of The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class
Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges - and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates and
Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit
America's Universities

Picador
On Sale: Oct 24/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 368 pages
Printed Endpapers / Notes, Index
9781250872609 • $27.00 • pb