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In 2022, Costa Rica received widespread Conti ransomware attacks affecting government, healthcare and industry. [47] This led President Rodrigo Chaves to declare a state of emergency and announce that Costa Rica is "at war" with its ransomware hackers. [48] In some infections, there is a two-stage payload, common in many malware systems.
The book also explores the role of private companies, criminal groups, and individual hackers in developing and deploying these weapons. Perlroth discusses various high-profile cyberattacks, such as the Stuxnet worm and the WannaCry ransomware attack, to illustrate the potentially catastrophic effects of cyberwarfare. [2] [3] [4]
There is ongoing debate over how cyberwarfare should be defined and no absolute definition is widely agreed upon. [9] [12] While the majority of scholars, militaries, and governments use definitions that refer to state and state-sponsored actors, [9] [13] [14] other definitions may include non-state actors, such as terrorist groups, companies, political or ideological extremist groups ...
It’s rare to find an insurance policy against war breaking out, but there’s a $10 billion market for cyber-insurance that guards against the threat of ransomware attacks. With the world as ...
GameOver ZeuS (GOZ), also known as peer-to-peer (P2P) ZeuS, ZeuS3, and GoZeus, is a Trojan horse developed by Russian cybercriminal Evgeniy Bogachev. Created in 2011 as a successor to Jabber Zeus, another project of Bogachev's, the malware is notorious for its usage in bank fraud resulting in damages of approximately $100 million and being the main vehicle through which the CryptoLocker ...
Recovery time from a ransomware attack: Ransomware negotiators and incident response firms report that the average victim can recover in days, if they possess proper backups. In contrast, victims ...
Rhysida is a ransomware group that encrypts data on victims' computer systems and threatens to make it publicly available unless a ransom is paid. [1] The group uses eponymous ransomware-as-a-service techniques, targets large organisations rather than making random attacks on individuals, and demands large sums of money to restore data. [2]
On 17 December 2016, a year after the previous power grid attack, hackers again disrupted the Ukrainian power grid with a cyber attack. About one fifth of Kyiv lost power for an hour. While the outage was ultimately short, a report released 3 years after the attack by security firm Dragos outlines a theory that the malware, known as Industroyer ...