Criminal wannabes even more dangerous than the pros, says ex-FBI cyber chief

interview It's the biggest threat today, but it took her a while to appreciate it. After spending two decades at the FBI and much of that time working to intercept and stop cyber threats from the likes of China and Russia, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP Cynthia Kaiser says she was a "latercomer to really wanting to focus on ransomware."

"I was a Section Chief at the FBI, I was over in the nation state analysis - so North Korea, Iran, China, Russia - and at the time China was pre-positioning on our critical infrastructure, posing this existential threat," she told The Register during an interview at RSA Conference. 

"Ransomware was a slower evolution for me to realize that's who is stealing from us today, that's the threat facing us today - it's not the potential catastrophic threat of tomorrow," Kaiser said. "I'm also really angry about ransomware ...