The lives and times of ransomware hunters

A recurring theme across the book is the indifference and incompetence of government, particularly in America

THE RANSOMWARE HUNTING TEAM: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime 

Author: Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pages: 355

Price: $30

In May, the president of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, announced that the nation was “at war” with the Russia-based criminal gang Conti, which had infected 27 of the country’s government institutions with ransomware and demanded $20 million to restore the encrypted data and computer systems. If entire countries can be brought to their knees by ransomware, then so too can cities, hospitals, individuals and schools, among many other entities. And for all of Chaves’s