![]() Perhaps unsurprisingly, this scattershot approach has its limits for understanding both the history and execution of ransomware attacks, though it does tell a moderately entertaining story that makes life as we know it – our power, medical, financial and communication systems dependent on networks connected to the internet – seem perilously fragile. Among them: animation, dramatic recreation, stock footage of beeping ones and zeros, archival footage on the relatively brief history of hacking, ominous narration from British broadcaster and cybersecurity journalist Misha Glenny. Director Daniel Gordon employs a range of cinematic techniques – some illuminative, some overly cliched – to get at a highly sophisticated cyber crime involving several countries, time zones and financial institutions. ![]() Billion Dollar Heist, a new feature-length documentary, attempts the formidable challenge of turning one of the biggest financial crimes in history – the February 2016 cyber heist of $81m from the US Federal Reserve accounts for the central bank of Bangladesh – into informative entertainment.
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