ProPublica journalists Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden will talk about their new book, "The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime." It tells the story of an unheralded group of a dozen people in the U.S. and Europe who have become the world's most effective defense against the growing threat of ransomware. Some of them don't have college or even high school degrees, and come from backgrounds of poverty and abuse. Yet, through their tireless codebreaking, they have saved millions of people and organizations from paying billions of dollars in ransom, without charging a penny. More broadly, the book depicts the rise of ransomware from targeting individuals for small payments to holding major corporations, universities, hospitals and government agencies hostage. "The Ransomware Hunting Team" is an Amazon editor's choice, and the New York Times called it "brilliant."

Renee Dudley is a technology reporter at ProPublica and a former reporter at Reuters, where she was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work in uncovering a major college admissions testing scandal.

Daniel Golden is a reporter and senior editor at ProPublica who has won a Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards. He is the bestselling author of "The Price of Admission" and "Spy Schools."

This is a hybrid program. You can attend in person or watch via Zoom. If you are attending via Zoom, please register to receive the Zoom link. In-person attendance is on a first come basis.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase through Maxima Book Center.

This program is made possible by the generous donors to the Cary Library Foundation.