Cyber Crime: WannaCry Attack on NHS

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Past cyber attacks...................................................................................................................2
The most prestigious attack....................................................................................................3
The targeted organization by WannaCry...............................................................................3
Attack possessed by WannaCry.............................................................................................4
Damage caused by the Ransomware attack...........................................................................4
Detection of the attack...........................................................................................................5
The Perpetrator.......................................................................................................................6
Summary of the findings........................................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Cyber crime is an attempt by the hackers in order to gain an unauthorized access to
the system to use its assets and to expose, alter, disable, damage, destroy, steal the
information from the system. The target associated with this crime is called cyber attack. It is
an offensive movement which targets the infrastructure and information system of a computer
or a network.
Ransomware is a computer malware which locks or take over the access of the database
management system by an encrypted form of data which cannot be decrypted easily (Brewer
2016). It blocks the users from accessing their own system files and data; the malware locks
the data and put it in an encrypted form. Ransomeware is one of the most rapidly advancing
cyber world criminal activity which affects business, banking sectors, government
organizations, hospitals and other organizations. WannaCry is one of the famous
Ransomware malware and one of the largest malware attacks that affect the NHS 2017
(Boiten and Wall 2017). This report discusses about the research on the past cyber attacks
and one of the highest prestigious attack which took place in NHS.
Discussion
Past cyber attacks
The past cyber attacks which took place in the recent past are:
1. Teardrop-Attack: The tear drop attack is denial-of-service (DoS) attack which includes
the process of sending of the fragmented packets to the targeted machine or the victim’s
system (Solankar, Pingale and Parihar 2015). The machine which receives such packets
reassembles them because of the bug in TCP/IP fragmentation. The packets overlap with