Ransomware has shut down hospitals, pipelines, and governments. You've read the news coverage. This is the other side of it. Owned is a first-person account of the ransomware wars told by nine people who've been living them. Inside the book, contributors share what they saw and did: A researcher develops an online relationship with a notorious hacker, only to find his life under threat; A teenager runs one of the world's largest stolen credit card scams before renouncing his life of crime; A cryptocurrency analyst helps uncover the identity of a cyber gang member by tracking the flow of dark money; A Ukrainian college student performs hacks for hire to pay for school before getting roped into a nefarious scheme he can't escape; Jon DiMaggio opens and ties the book together with his account of infiltrating LockBit, including the FBI call warning him the gang had put a target on his back. This isn't journalism about the ransomware world. It's testimony from inside it.
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