Ransomware: taking businesses hostage
Abstract
Cybercrime has its fashions. As technologies evolve and defences improve, so hackers and cyber-criminals modify their methods of attack. We're currently seeing a burgeoning in the use of ransomware, the digital form of blackmail in which your computer is effectively taken hostage. And both the nature of the chief targets and the ways in which they are being attacked are changing quickly as criminals spot new opportunities for extorting money. Europol recently declared ransomware to be the biggest cyber-threat facing European businesses and citizens. Both the nature of the chief targets and the ways in which they are being attacked are changing quickly as criminals spot new opportunities for extorting money. A large proportion of organisations have been affected at some time, with cyber-criminals apparently turning their attentions to those that are most vulnerable, such as hospitals. The ransomware itself is evolving too, and while some of it is poorly executed, the most advanced strains show great sophistication. Steve Mansfield-Devine explores the nature of the threat and how businesses should respond.
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Ransomware can lock out a hospital's systems (eg, encrypt data) until the attacker is paid.
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- Authors
- Mansfield-Devine, S.
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- Mansfield-Devine, Steve
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- 2016
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- Locations
- Network Security (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Signal Processing › Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information and Cyber Security
- Keywords
- ransomware, cybercrime, business security, cyber extortion
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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