# Call It What It Is: When Ransomware Becomes Terrorism | An Interview with Cynthia Kaiser | Redefining CyberSecurity With Sean Martin — On Location at InfoSecurity Europe 2026

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Published: 2026-06-19T14:42:18+00:00
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## Resource

A ransomware crew can run through your whole company between dinner and dessert. Sean Martin sat down with Cynthia Kaiser — twenty years at the FBI, now leading the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center — on the speed of the threat, the human cost the industry keeps abstracting away, and why a slice of ransomware deserves a harder name than “crime.”

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