U.S. government officials recently attributed the WannaCry ransomware attack, which encrypted hundreds of thousands of computers drives around the world in May 2017, to North Korea, but little evidence was actually produced to support the claim. Research this attack thoroughly and answer the following questions - explore various viewpoints, and provide supporting details based on your research:
A Ransomware is a computer virus that renders anybody’s system unable to function and threatens for ransom from the owner in return for unlocking the device. Such a ransomware, which was called as WannaCry struck at its start, over 0.2 million computers in over one hundred and fifty countries in the month of May, 2017 and blew out of proportions quite…show more content… In what ways.
Of the concerns impacted by the WannaCry ransomware, was UK’s National Health Services. Out of 236, nearly 81 medical trusts working under NHS, England were affected in one way or the other. Of 37 trusts, from which twenty-seven were critical trusts, were rendered useless from the attack, as essential medical machines like blood testing devices and MRI machines were locked. Another of the affectees was France’s Renault-Nissan, which had to stop its production in some of its facilities.
What factors complicated attrition or could have been potentially manipulated to delay or avert attribution? The WannaCry ransomware attack was allowed to let loose by the security experts at the National Security Agency of the United States for some time, and that too for some unknown political reasons. This resulted in fast spread of the virus around the globe. Had there been timely communication of the information to the concerned institutions worldwide, the security experts would have spared their time to pinpoint the human sources behind the attack, instead of utilizing their time to avert and block the…show more content… The expert got code of the ransomware’s web address which was fake. The expert thought that the web address might surely have been a source of virus spread, which is normal in such attacks, so he got the domain registered, and kept an eye on the infected system’s traffic, which congested the host server of the domain. This procedure proved to be a killer for the ransomware, as any computer that contacted the web address, the ransomware killed itself
