MAJOR GLOBAL RANSOMWARE ATTACKS

  The development of science and technology during this past few decades brought several benefits for peoples, organizations, enterprises, and firms. However, tons of cyber threats are occurring these days. Ransomware is one of the family of malicious computer code that spread quickly and cause a crucial impact round the world. It attacks the victim’s device by infecting the malicious file into the device which can encode and deny the victim access to it. The victims are only allowed access once they pay the demand using cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin so tha t it can’t be traced back to the hacker. Most common attacks happen on health care facilities like stealing patient data and medical report, etc. The target that ransomware like to target is user-wise and system-wise. "CyproLocker", "Locky", "Crypto Wall" are the example for this class which comes with the most widespread ransomware.                ...