![]() It caused an outage of around 225,000 customers. ![]() To show a historical damage that such malware can do, we give the example of the Ukranian power grid that suffered a cyber attack in December 2015. Malware attacks are on the rise, for instance, the recurrence of disk wiping malware "Shamoon" in the Middle East, and cyber attacks against Ukrainian targets involving the KillDisk Trojan. The same report shows that the number of detection of ransomware increased to 463,841, in 2016 and more than 7.1 billion identities have been compromised in cyber attacks in the last 8 years. A digital currency preferred by ransomware criminals because they can accept it globally without having to reveal their identities. It jumped to $1077 in 2016, and we surmise that it is due to the upsurge value of Bitcoin. The Internet Security Threat Report ( Symantec 2017) shows that the average ransom was $373 in 2014 and it was $294 in 2015. ![]() ![]() Benefits of making money and conducting low risk illegal acts drive cybercriminals. Warner, the Director of the Center for Information Assurance and Joint Forensics Research, at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, explained the challenges of protecting individuals and reporting cybercrimes. Gary Warner delivered in March 1, 2014, a TEDX Birmingham presentation about our current approach to cybercrime. ![]()
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