ProPublica Reporter & Author Renee Dudley on Writing About the Hunters and the Hackers

Future of Threat Intelligence · Jun 2, 2023 · 38m

In this week's episode of the Future of Cyber Risk podcast, David speaks to Renee Dudley, reporter at ProPublica and co-author of The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime. Renee tells about how her investigative reporting focus took her to cybercrime and ransomware, and how in her research she met a "ransomware hunting team" of a dozen individuals who crack ransomware for victims and rarely ask for anything in return. She also talks about her investigation into companies who claim to help victims with ransoms but are actually scams…