This post originated from comments John Carmack made on Lex Fridman's podcast (41:04) about motivators for software developers "Everything we're doing really should flow from user value". He goes on to talk about how exercises like code golf are great challenges and completing or "winning" them is a great …

This post is adapted from a paper I wrote for a masters course in early 2024.

Introduction

Ransomware is a global problem that has significant financial and business operations impact to organisations that are victims of attacks. The proliferation of Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) has led to an explosion …