Paul Cervenka

The Axe and the Iron

A bank is hacked and the Security Operations Center manager goes back in time to change a critical decision he made that could change the course of a future breach that has taken down the entire bank.

A Chief Financial Officer for a large bank is hacked and has the secret pass-phrases to his personal cryptocurrency wallet compromised that holds $25 Million of his own money in it, which he needs for his daughter's heart transplant surgery. With intent on going after the bigger prize -- the bank he works for -- the hackers offer his personal money back in exchange for the password to the account containing $1 Billion of the bank's money.

Chronicles the life of Widow, a female kingpin in the global underground of Ransomware-as-a-Service crime syndicates. It follows her group's rise to power to establish itself as the new polar power in the global Ransomware economy.