**True crime with technical credibility: the secret collective of hackers, ex-criminals, investigators, and journalists who've spent years fighting ransomware from the inside finally tell their stories, with real DMs from gang operators, screenshots of dark web forum conversations, and a complete ransom negotiation walkthrough.
Anchored by Jon DiMaggio's account of infiltrating LockBit and the FBI call warning him the gang had put a target on his back, this cybersecurity expose is testimony from inside the ransomware wars, not coverage of them.**
Ransomware has shut down hospitals, pipelines, and governments. You've read the news coverage. This is the other side of it. Ransomed World 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:
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A researcher develops an online relationship with a notorious hacker, only to find his life under threat
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A teenager runs one of the world's largest stolen credit card scams before renouncing his life of crime
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A cryptocurrency analyst helps uncover the identity of a cyber gang member by tracking the flow of dark money
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A Ukrainian college student performs hacks for hire to pay for school before getting roped into a nefarious scheme he can't escape
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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.
