Ransomware is entering a new phase, at which time dangerous coding data can be used to make a market, government or even the economy paralyzed.
In the decades-long history of digital information security, several threats have been proven to be phishing and sabotage, which are ransomware.
Identified as malicious software that encrypts data on infected devices in general for the purpose of extorting ransomware claims, ransomware attacks have increased by more than 750% last year.
Even worse, studies show that less than half of organizations affected by a ransomeware attack can not recover all of their data.
After a boom in the software toxic Petya spread earlier this year, these companies pay hundreds of millions of dollars, many people worry that Petya will be the first sign of a phase distortion ransomware new possibilities It spreads for several hours or days and the affected host is unusable.
Digital security companies are battling ransomware. Experts are working on ways to block suspected ransomware programs, prevent unauthorized data encryption and back up data.
Bad Rabbit ransomware
It looks like security experts are fighting criminals using ransomware.However, the emergence and rapid propagation of a new ransomware family called Bad Rabbit suggests that malicious data encryption will not be easily blocked.
Bad Rabbit is different from previous ransomware attempts, because, according to researchers at Cisco Systems, it uses the stolen EternalRomance of the NSA, which allows an attacker to gain access to the entire system.In addition, unlike most previous ransomware attacks, relying on command infrastructure and fast integration, often failed shortly after the attack began, Bad Rabbit's data collection mechanism was build more carefully than before.
The creators of Bad Rabbit - according to FireEye researchers - supposedly use software to malicious spying for the government agencies in Russia and Ukraine - instead ransom.
Bad Rabbit is the start of a new phase in the development of ransomware, which extracts a ransom payment as a secondary goal or even unnecessary.
Ransomware has instead become a way to vex and harass victims to conduct cyber-espionage and vandalism campaigns.
What can be done?
To counter the proliferation of ransomware it needs to be kept in mind that paying a ransom does not guarantee that data or system access will be unlocked.
Instead, organizations must plan for ransomware attacks in the same way that they plan for power outages or the internet and install computer security software .
It is important that ransomware is not no longer exist. Bad Rabbit is just the latest ransomeware and will not be the last. Organizations or individuals preparing now will suffer the least in the future.
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