In this week's episode of the Future of Cyber Risk podcast, David speaks to Renee Dudley, reporter at ProPublica and co-author of The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime. Renee tells about how her investigative reporting focus took her to cybercrime and ransomware, and how in her research she met a "ransomware hunting team" of a dozen individuals who crack ransomware for victims and rarely ask for anything in return. She also talks about her investigation into companies who claim to help victims with ransoms but are actually scams and how individuals can protect themselves against a ransomware attack.

Topics discussed:

• How Renee got into covering cybersecurity, which was sparked by seeing how CISOs were frustrated about not getting funding from their board, and which eventually became a primary topic of her investigative reporting.