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The Ransomware Hunting Team
- A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
- Narrated by: BD Wong
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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A 2023 Audie Award winner!
"Ever careful in his pacing, BD Wong narrates this cybersecurity tale as if he's pitching the story for a movie."—AudioFile
A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time.
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A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.