{"id":47543,"date":"2017-10-30T16:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47543"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:09","slug":"armstrong-herath-ransomware-like-bad-rabbit-is-big-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/armstrong-herath-ransomware-like-bad-rabbit-is-big-business\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG, HERATH: Ransomware like Bad Rabbit is big business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research, and Teju Herath, an associate professor of information systems, both of Brock&#8217;s Goodman School of Business, co-authored a piece recently <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ransomware-like-bad-rabbit-is-big-business-86295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in The Conversation<\/a> about ransomware cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>October is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.getcybersafe.gc.ca\/index-en.aspx\">Cybersecurity Awareness month<\/a>, which is being observed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/stories\/national-cyber-security-awareness-month-2017\">United States<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecuritymonth.eu\/about-ecsm\/whats-ecsm\">Europe<\/a>, and elsewhere around the world. Ironically, it began with updates about a large-scale hack, and is ending with a large-scale ransomware outbreak.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Internet firm Yahoo kicked things off on Oct. 3 when it admitted that hackers in 2013 had accessed information about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/yahoo-breach-three-billion-1.4322100\">all three billion of its user accounts<\/a>, not \u201cjust\u201d the one billion first reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ransomware \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/25\/bad-rabbit-game-of-thrones-ransomware-europe-notpetya-bitcoin-decryption-key\">Bad Rabbit<\/a>\u201d is providing the finale with attacks that began Oct. 24. So far, the outbreak is mostly affecting business computers in Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ransomware-like-bad-rabbit-is-big-business-86295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research, and Teju Herath, an associate professor of information systems, both of Brock&#8217;s Goodman School of Business, co-authored a piece recently published in The Conversation about ransomware cyberattacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,6],"tags":[594,4395,4586,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47544,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543\/revisions\/47544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}