Three Distinct Perspectives of Applied Ethics on Ransomware Attacks

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1. Introduction
In the last six months the case which is raised the most amount of ethical dilemma is
happened around the Ransomware. The biggest baddie of 2018 is ransomware, in the last six
months the report shows that the most of the data breach is happened because of the
ransomware. Near about 39% data breaches is happened because of the ransomware. The rate
is doubled from the last year as the ransomware became top malicious software in the current
market. The recent reports says that 53,000 incidents happened in the recent time and the
amount of the data breach is 2,216 around the 65 countries (Kharraz et al., 2015). The report
also says that ransomware affected many critical systems rather than the desktop only. Because
of that the cyber attackers are earning huge amount of money by doing less work. As the
economy is saturated the chances are high for the ransomware to grow rapidly. It is founded on
the report that the human continue to suffer because of this attacks. People needs to be aware
of these attacks as they are not supposed to click any link that is not verified (Springer et al.,
2016).
2. Professional Ethics Perspectives:
The professional ethics is a standard which is maintained by the professionals of the corporate.
It is necessary for the corporate world to follow the code of the ethics properly. To be said
ethically a professional behavior must follow the profession ethics. The employee must not
conduct any activities that is against the ethics of the profession and cause harm for the
employee associated with the company and for the company (Baer & Nagy, 2017).
It is necessary for the company to train the employees before appointing in the company and
informed them about the ethical codes of the company. That will help the employees to behave
properly as per the code of the ethics. The activity of protecting self-profession is also an
implication of professional. The professional of the corporate world must have positive attitude
towards his/ her profession (Brady, 2017). The professional must not do any kind of negative
work which will affect in profession. All professional associated with the corporate world must
adhere the ethics of organization.
In this case the topic is ransomware attacks where the cyber-criminal attacks the system of
individuals of an entire location, which is unethical as it is not following any rules of ethics. The
effect of ransomware attacks is itself an unethical factor as it breaches the personal data of
individuals without even their concern. As per the ethics the data are the personal property of
individuals and not for the outside people. Each and every attacks of the ransomware is
victimizing the individuals who are associated with the profession. A hacker who is hacking the
machines of people is a developer who develop multiple codes to breach the data by entering
into the system of the individuals (Upadhyaya & Jain, 2016). For a developer the main ethics is
that he/she must develop a software which will be beneficial for the human being rather causing
harm to the human being. The developers of the ransomware only made the software for their
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