Ransomware: Effective Methods of Prevention
Introduction
Ransomware attacks have been on the rise over the past couple of years, especially this year when there have been daily reports of hospitals, schools, and police departments falling victim to digital extortion. The Business Insider reported that victims paid more than 24 million dollars to cybercriminals because of ransomware (Turkel, 2016).
The occurrence of ransomware has been on the rise in 2016 with its mention in the news almost daily with reports of one cybersecurity firm responding to three or four incidents of ransomware a week during the first quarter alone (Ragan, 2016). Ed Cabrera, the Vice President of Cybersecurity Strategy at Trend Micro quoted the United States Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper as “claiming that cyber attacks have surpassed terrorism” when it comes to national security (2016). Federal agencies in the United States spend approximately 100 million dollars a year fighting cybercrime (Runciman, 2011).
Problem Statement
Cybercriminals seem to be always a step or two ahead of security vulnerability patch development, so there will always be vulnerabilities for ransomware to exploit. Keeping computers updated with the latest patches is only part the defense against ransomware. Users are often seen as the weakest link in network security, so training the users on good network practices may help to eliminate the introduction of ransomware to a system or
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Ransomware is a malicious computer program that encrypts your computers contents and requires a key to unlock the encryption. You are instructed to wire bitcoins (anonymous internet
The threat is incredibly serious—and growing. Our nation’s critical infrastructure, including both private and public sector networks, are targeted by adversaries. American companies are targeted for trade secrets and other sensitive data, and universities for their cutting-edge research and development. Citizens from anywhere across the globe are targeted by fraudsters and identity thieves, and children are targeted by online predators. Just as the FBI transformed itself to better address the terrorist threat after the 9/11 attacks, this means enhancing the Cyber Division’s investigative capacity to have strong sharp focus on intrusions into government and private computer like network to.hospitals, school districts, state and local governments, law enforcement agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration, National Security Agency, Naval Criminal investigative Service and Department Of Defense, small businesses, large businesses these are just many who have been impacted by ransomware, a threat type of malware that encrypts, or locks, valuable digital files and
Cyber crimes, as defined by dictionary.com, are criminal activity or a crime that involves the internet, a computer system, or computer technology. Cyber Crimes may occur all over the globe, but the scene of the crime shares one common location, the internet. Law Enforcement has been tasked with bringing an end to this digital dilemma and they have started by going to war. The war on Cyber crimes is a term used to designate the efforts of Law Enforcement to go against these sly criminals. There are many different forms of these crimes, such as some come in forms of scams and others are ushered in by hackers. The shocking part is the statistics that come along with these crimes and the amount of money that
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There was a cyberattack launched on Medstar Health located in Maryland and Washington, on March 28, 1016. According to IT and security specialists, the cyberattack dealt with ransomware. The ransomware was also known to be imminent from an attacks launched
Primary prevention traces its beginnings to the health promotion field. In the context of interpersonal violence it aims to prevent violence before it occurs, through education, cultural change, challenging expectations, fostering protective behaviours and awareness raising campaigns. Violence tends to occur as an interplay between individuals, relationships, culture, social norms and context. A primary prevention approach does not focus on the negative but takes a positive approach to building individual and community strengths. The point is to engage individuals in partnership to tackle a problem (Cohen, L., Chavez, V., & Chehimi, S., 2007).
This research project discusses a common threat that is consistently present in the world that we live in today on the front of cybersecurity as well as cyberspace. Among all of the various cyber-attacks that exist in our world today, Ransomware has taken a front seat when discussing the different types of threats that create the potential to harm us users on a day to day basis. This form of threat is something that has been plaguing users for years and has caused financial manipulation for hospitals, businesses, and private citizens as well. This research project will discuss the threats that have been present in the past 5-10 years and will provide an in depth study of what occurred and what could have been done in order to prevent this type of attack from happening. The topic of risk assessment and vulnerability will be analyzed as well.
There are a number of effective interventions that proposed and implemented by schools. The most well-known program is Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.), which relies on law enforcement agencies and legislators as stakeholders for the community to educate young children. Nevertheless, recently D.A.R.E. has been criticized for its lack of preventive depth. Statistical analysis has empirically shown that the general belief is that D.A.R.E. is no more effective that standard drug prevention programs (Dusenbury & Falco, 1995). The American Academy of Pediatrics discussed the efficiency of schools drug testing its students, which has consequently shown a decline in substance use by high school students; however, there are many ethical and interpretational limitations in testing students and many schools require medical clearance to do so, complicating an already complicated process (Levy & Siquiera, 2014).
Secondary prevention is the prevention of diabetic complications through the optimization of glycaemic control (Dornhorst&Merrin, 1994). Optimization of glycaemic control would accomplished by frequent capillary blood sugar testing along with regular A1C lab work (Dornhorst&Merrin, 1994). A nurse would assist with secondary prevention in these patients by teaching a patient how to perform finger sticks and setting up appointments for lab
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Recovering from a ransomware attack isn't easy, yet it can be done. However, companies who fall victim to ransomware may find that the recovery process is the least of their concerns. They could be facing not only lawsuits, but also costly fines. This is why prevention is so critical.
Just like a biological virus, a computer virus is able to infect and ruin lives. This malicious software constitutes more than just simple viruses but also includes other types of software including worms, Trojan horses, and ransomware. Malware has been around since the late 1980’s. Originally, people became hackers to gain notoriety online, but today, it has become more of a business. Cyber attacks originate from all around the world, and it is not just individual people that benefit from it. In two decades, numerous cyber crime syndicates have been created, and states all over the world sponsor hacker groups. Over the past twenty-five years, malware has become less about checking the integrity of computer security and gaining notoriety in the underground cyber society, and it has become more of a chaos creating, money making business that many people and institutions take part in.
Variants of ransomware now allow victims to “pay” by spreading the malware to their friends and family. Another variant, Spora, allows tiered payments that unlock “some” or “all” of a victim’s encrypted files or grant “immunity” from the virus that infected them. Expect that to continue in 2017 with an emphasis on alternative payment modes (always the trickiest part of the ransomware scheme). (Roberts, 2017)
Cybercrime has become a fast growing concern for the 21st century as businesses, institutions and individuals grow into an interconnected web of computer networks. Online business transactions, along with the sharing of personal information, are vulnerable to a host of disasters that can reap economic and social havoc. Some sources say that today, cybercrime costs more than $1.0 trillion to society--Global Industry Analysts, Inc. forecasted the world cyber security market to reach $80 billion by 2017 (Gale, 2011).