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WannaCry Ransomware Attack

   

Added on  2020-05-16

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Running head: CYBER SECURITYCyber SecurityName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1CYBER SECURITYTable of ContentsIntroduction..........................................................................................................................2The incident.........................................................................................................................2Conclusion:..........................................................................................................................4References............................................................................................................................5

2CYBER SECURITYIntroductionThe WannaCry malware that hit the world in the year of the 2017 is one of the biggestattract on the world of the internet. This was the biggest attack ever the cyber security expertswitnessed and didn’t know how to deal with the same (Hern and Gibbs, 2018). The WannaCrywas a type of malware the at encrypted the systems of the victims and wanted ransom in the formof Bitcoin in exchange of the decrypting files.The incidentThe WannaCry ransom attract widespread on the May 2017 through the WannaCrycrypto ware, which after the Microsoft windows operating system. The malware encrypted thesystems running in Windows OS and demanded the payment in the form of the Bitcoincryptocurrency. It exploded and propagated through the Eternal Blue in the older windowsversion (CNET, 2018). The primary target were the systems running in the windows XP anunsupported windows version. A report by the Kaspersky security labs estimated thatapproximately more than 2000000 computers were after by it 150 countries of the world. One ofthe biggest attack recorded was on the National health service hospital in the England and theScotland’s. Approximately more than 70000 systems including the computers, MRI scanners,blood-storage refrigerators were encrypted by the hack. Other than this the Nissan motors in theUK were also hampered, who due to the attract was forced to shut done the assembly line of thepantoate than this the otter major attacks were on the south Asia countries like the china, India,south Korea japan, and the US countries were also attacked by the systems. The software breadspreaded mostly thee word documents and the pdf files and other such extensions which isusually sent though emails, or though the secondary infectious files in the computers alreadyaffected. The working of the crypto ware is very simple, when a system got infected the

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