The Extortion Economy

A five part series about the money, technology and people behind the ransomware epidemic from MIT Technology Review and ... Read more

A new-age iteration of the old-age extortion problem. A ransomware vigilante, a piracy (as in actual boats) expert, a sc... Read more

After the Colonial Pipeline payment, the FBI followed the money and cybersecurity researchers followed the ransomware gr... Read more

In an absurd contract, look into the criminal world where the stakes are high, but the methods are increasingly business... Read more

We look at the reasons ransomware is so hard to solve and ask hard questions about who is really helping the victims. Th... Read more

The problem of ransomware has many causes but no clear solution. What's coming next? This is part five.We Meet:Fabian Wo... Read more