The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime is a 2022 nonfiction book on computer security by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden.

It was published in the United States in October 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and is about a group of volunteer freelance computer experts who crack ransomware and help victims recover their data without them having to yield to extortion.

[6] The Ransomware Hunting Team audiobook published by Macmillan Audio and narrated by BD Wong won the 2023 Audie Award for Nonfiction.

Authors Dudley and Golden explain how cybercriminals break into vulnerable computer systems, infect them with viruses that encrypt their data, and then demand money for decryption keys.

Kirkus Reviews called The Ransomware Hunting Team "[a]n accessible, tautly written account of cyberwarfare in real time.

[11] She said Dudley and Golden emphasize the devastating effect ransomware has on its victims, and highlights "the indifference and incompetence" of the authorities in tackling this problem.