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Why write a ransomware book ? Or , more specifically , why write another ransomware book ? After all , there are plenty of vendor blogs , news stories , and research sites offering up-to-the-minute information about ransomware ; a book can ’ t possibly keep up .

Download whitepaper That ’ s true , but a book isn ’ t meant for breaking news . Instead , a book should step back and look at the bigger picture , which is what this book does .

Right now , a newsworthy ransomware event occurs almost every day : A new victim , a new action by a government , a new attack method , or something else .

In fact , there ’ s so much going on with ransomware that it can be hard to keep up , which is one of the reasons defending against ransomware is so challenging .

Rather than focus on the latest news , there are three goals for this book .

Understand : The first part tries to put ransomware into context . How did we go from someone distributing a floppy disk that would eventually encrypt files on computers used by AIDS researchers , to international actors shutting down a gas pipeline that serves most of the East Coast of the United States ? Understanding what the ransomware market looks like , who the major players are , and how they

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