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  • The Ransomware Hunting Team

  • A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
  • By: Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden
  • Narrated by: BD Wong
  • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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The Ransomware Hunting Team

By: Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden
Narrated by: BD Wong
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Summary

A 2023 Audie Award winner!

"Ever careful in his pacing, BD Wong narrates this cybersecurity tale as if he's pitching the story for a movie."—AudioFile

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, 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."—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 protégé, 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.

Urgent, uplifting, and entertaining, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden’s The Ransomware Hunting Team is a real-life technological thriller that illuminates a dangerous new era of cybercrime.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

©2022 Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden (P)2022 Macmillan Audio
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Enigma fact Error in story

Overall an enjoyable and interesting listen.

There is a fact error, the British did not crack the Enigma code, Polish mathematicians did in 1932 and handed over the 'how to' to British intelligence just before the war. The French were also involved in handing over the secrets. The Brits then used the 'how to' to read German cyphered traffic and developed quicker methodology to read the traffic, and also developed mathematics to crack the fourth cog in the Enigma.

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A very interesting read

Highly recommend it, covers some of the most interesting aspects of malware reverse engineering. Would have preferred it to have gone even deeper mathematical issues but still a great book

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slender story, wooden performance

The slender main story is padded repeatedly with quantities of personal history and troubles.

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