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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

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Thanks for joining us. When the Ransomware Diaries 3 had come out, I was looking on one of the Russian forums and this person who had just created an

account the day before started chiming in and in their signature block it said

owner and creator of Ransom to VC. That's John

DiMaggio, chief security strategist for analyst one. The research we're

discussing today is titled Ransomware Diaries,

Volume 4, Ransomned and Exposed

The Story of Ransom, V.C. Of course at the time I didn't know who that was because it was like a day after their

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