Recently attackers have used the threat of data exposure as part of their extortion plot. Now the lucrativeness of criminal activity is hard to quantify, but the frequency of attacks indicates that criminals see the upside in continuing to use these techniques. It’s worth it to note that cryptocurrency enabled ransomware to become a lucrative profession. Usually, there is some dollar figure attached, and a BitCoin link with threatening messages like “pay us or your data gets it.” The victim is totally pwnd, and the attacker sends the ransom note. WannaCry used the EternalBlue vulnerability to spread to other computers and then perform the encryption. The CryptoWall ransomware deleted Volume Shadow Copy files to make restoring from backup harder and looked for BitCoin wallets to steal. It might start with the local disk and then try to probe the network for mapped shares or open shares to attack. Now the ransomware does the encrypting of the victim’s files. Next, the malware reaches out to the attackers to let them know they have infected a victim and to get the cryptographic keys that the ransomware needs to encrypt the victim’s data. From here, the ransomware either works locally or tries to replicate itself to other computers on the network. Most often, this is a simple phishing attack with malware in the file attachments. Infectionįirst, attackers need to deliver the malware payload to the target. Infiltrate the target’s network, encrypt as much data as possible, extort for ransom. Ransomware is a multi-staged attack that attackers have packaged in several different ways. In 2019, the city of Baltimore got hit with a ransomware attack, which cost an estimated $18 million in recovery.īut how exactly does ransomware work? How Ransomware Works The first ransomware dates back to 1989, got distributed on floppy disks, and asked for a $189 ransom. The attacker then tries to get the victim to pay the ransom for the key to decrypt their files. Ransomware is malware that encrypts the target victim’s data.
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