"Ransomware Comic Looks to Bring Detective Noir to the Computer Age"

Johnny Dollar is a fictional private detective turned insurance investigator whose old-school crime-fighting adventures are being rebooted decades into the future to combat digital extortion, one of the digital age's most pressing and disruptive crimes. The character started as a radio serial on February 18, 1949. Johnny made his living as a private investigator, pursuing mobsters, murderers, and scammers. More than 800 episodes were broadcast on CBS Radio before the series' cancellation in 1962. Today, Allan Liska, an analyst at the cybersecurity company Recorded Future, is relaunching Johnny's story in a new comic book. Like Liska, the new Johnny Dollar will spend his days investigating ransomware crimes and helping victims whose lives have been turned upside down by cybercriminal gangs. This article continues to discuss Liska's translation of a 1940s detective radio serial to a comic set in the modern computer age. 

SC Media reports "Ransomware Comic Looks to Bring Detective Noir to the Computer Age"