Virus and Spam: Recent Attacks and Crypto-malware Threats

Running head: COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEM
VIRUS AND SPAM
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Researching Virus Attacks
Virus is a type of software that replicates itself in the computer program to destroy the computer
system. The affected area are said to be the infected area of the computer. The virus code are written by
using the social engineering description and destroys all the data of the system. Majority of the viruses
attacks the system running the Microsoft Windows (Mousavi, Rad and Wah 2016). There are five types
of recent virus attacks faced by the society:
WannaCry: Wannacry attack was a worldwide attack took place at mid 2017. This targeted MS
Windows operating system and encrypted data in the system. The attackers demanded for ransom
payment for keeping the information secret (Brewer 2016).
Facebook messenger virus: This virus has affected the data of the users in Facebook. The attackers
operate this, they send a YouTube link in the messenger and this appears as any friend has sent the link.
As soon as the user opens the link, the page redirects the users to a phishing site. This leads to data
breaching.
The damages that are caused with these attacks are, the data of the users are breached. Even
sometimes, the viruses lead to crash the system. This destroys the whole data of the users and sometimes
led to breaching of the important and confidential data. This harms the users largely. The most vulnerable
sites are the online sites, social media and the cloud-computing servers. Windows also possess a great
threat from these viruses. The computer system which are based on Macs and Linux are susceptible of
this threats.