When a CFO at a bank, Lorenzo, learns that a ransomware gang has got a hold of $25 million in bitcoin that he needs for his daughter’s life-saving surgery, he’s forced to choose between losing the money or helping the hackers steal an even greater sum of money from the bank he works at. Out of good options, Lorenzo calls on the one person who can help him: a former hacker who now works as a forensic analyst at Menlo Security. That’s when Lorenzo learns that the antivirus software he thought was keeping him safe online wasn’t enough to prevent the Highly Evasive Adaptive Threat (HEAT) that the ransomware gang leveraged to steal his credentials.

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