Overview
- Presents a comprehensive overview of ransomware, as well as the anonymizing technologies that enable ransomware attacks to perpetuate
- Provides a practical perspective to the numerous challenges organizations face, once they become a victim of ransomware
- Details the business models cybercrime syndicates use to communicate, develop, and launch cyberattacks
Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS, volume 85)
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This book explores the genesis of ransomware and how the parallel emergence of encryption technologies has elevated ransomware to become the most prodigious cyber threat that enterprises are confronting. It also investigates the driving forces behind what has been dubbed the ‘ransomware revolution’ after a series of major attacks beginning in 2013, and how the advent of cryptocurrencies provided the catalyst for the development and increased profitability of ransomware, sparking a phenomenal rise in the number and complexity of ransomware attacks.
This book analyzes why the speed of technology adoption has been a fundamental factor in the continued success of financially motivated cybercrime, and how the ease of public access to advanced encryption techniques has allowed malicious actors to continue to operate with increased anonymity across the internet. This anonymity has enabled increased collaboration between attackers, which has aided the development of new ransomware attacks, and led to an increasing level of technical complexity in ransomware attacks. This book highlights that the continuous expansion and early adoption of emerging technologies may be beyond the capacity of conventional risk managers and risk management frameworks.
Researchers and advanced level students studying or working in computer science, business or criminology will find this book useful as a reference or secondary text. Professionals working in cybersecurity, cryptography, information technology, financial crime (and other related topics) will also welcome this book as a reference.
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Book Title: Ransomware Revolution: The Rise of a Prodigious Cyber Threat
Authors: Matthew Ryan
Series Title: Advances in Information Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66583-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66582-1Published: 25 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66585-2Published: 25 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66583-8Published: 24 February 2021
Series ISSN: 1568-2633
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 156
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cryptology, Cyber-physical systems, IoT, Risk Management, Mobile and Network Security