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Scattered across the world, an elite team of code-cracking techies is working tirelessly on your behalf to thwart the most notorious 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, especially if its cybersecurity is imperfect, chances are that you're painfully familiar with the group's sworn enemy: ransomware. Again and again, these ordinary people, mostly self-taught and often struggling to make ends meet, have outwitted the shadowy networks of hackers and criminal gangs that lock computer networks and extort huge payments in return for the key. The Ransomware Hunting Team is the incredible true story of a band of misfits who have used their extraordinary skills to save millions of ransomware victims from paying billions of dollars to criminals. Working in their free time from bedrooms and back offices, they offer their services pro bono to those whom the FBI, other government agencies, and the private sector are unwilling or unable to help. This book follows the teammates as they respond to dire calls for help-and tracks the ups and downs of their work as they race to rescue precious files and communicate directly with their adversaries. Urgent, uplifting, and entertaining, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden's The Ransomware Hunting Team is a real-life technological thriller set in a dangerous new era of cybercrime.

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If you've ever used a computer, you need this book. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden have burrowed into the digital underworld to reveal the unlikely heroes saving the rest of us from cyber chaos. The Ransomware Hunting Team is nonfiction with the narrative engine of a thriller. --Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Fall and Rise and 13 Hours The Ransomware Hunting Team is a tour de force of investigative reporting, with more twists, turns and shadowy figures than any spy thriller. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden take you deep inside the hidden universe of ransomware hackers and heroes--and some who may or may not be both. It's a breathtaking true tale that's astonishing and disturbing--and irresistibly readable. --Joanne Lipman, bestselling author of That's What She Said and former editor in chief of USA Today

What Michael Lewis did for baseball in Moneyball, Dudley and Golden do brilliantly for the world of ransomware and hackers. Cinematic, big in scope, and meticulously reported, this book is impossible to put down. Welcome to a brand-new world of geniuses, crooks, capers and global intrigue that you're already part of, and likely didn't even know it. --Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers If you've ever used a computer, you need this book. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden have burrowed into the digital underworld to reveal the unlikely heroes saving the rest of us from cyber chaos. The Ransomware Hunting Team is nonfiction with the narrative engine of a thriller. --Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Fall and Rise and 13 Hours A deeply reported dive into the rising tide of digital exploitation gangs, their nefarious methods, and the scraggly band of volunteers who are fighting to keep us safe. Totally engrossing. --Julia Angwin, author of Dragnet Nation The Ransomware Hunting Team is a tour de force of investigative reporting, with more twists, turns and shadowy figures than any spy thriller. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden take you deep inside the hidden universe of ransomware hackers and heroes--and some who may or may not be both. It's a breathtaking true tale that's astonishing and disturbing--and irresistibly readable. --Joanne Lipman, bestselling author of That's What She Said and former editor in chief of USA Today

If you've ever used a computer, you need this book. Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden have burrowed into the digital underworld to reveal the unlikely heroes saving the rest of us from cyber chaos. The Ransomware Hunting Team is nonfiction with the narrative engine of a thriller. --Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Fall and Rise and 13 Hours

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Renee Dudley is a technology reporter at ProPublica and a former reporter at Reuters, where she was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work in uncovering a major college admissions scandal. Daniel Golden is a senior editor at ProPublica who has won a Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards. He is the bestselling author of the The Price of Admission and Spy Schools.

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