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Report: Concerted Global Cyber Attack Could Disrupt Global Economy

by Anastasios Arampatzis on February 21, 2019

According to a hypothetical cyber risk scenario prepared by the Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) project for risk management purposes, a ransomware strain that can disrupt more than 600,000 businesses worldwide within 24 hours would potentially lead to damages in the amount of billions of dollars.

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Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) project is a collaborative partnership including Lloyd’s of London, the Cambridge Centre for Risk studies, the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and others. The report ‘Bashe Attack: Global infection by contagious malware’ uses a theoretical catastrophic ransomware attack to model the broader impact of such an incident and “explores how a ransomware attack might take place and what the impacts would be on governments, businesses, and the insurance sector.” The “hypothetical scenario [is] developed as a stress test for risk management purposes.”

While fictional, the ‘Bashe’ ransomware campaign uses data and tactics from past global cyber attacks, including WannaCry and NotPetya, as a basis for how hackers could spread malware around the world. The main finding of the report is that a worldwide cyber attack could cost global economic losses of almost $200 billion as organizations across sectors are still unprepared to face the consequences of a malicious global cyber campaign.

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In the scenario, ‘Bashe’ is delivered to targets via phishing emails that appear to come from the target’s payroll departments. These emails attempt to trick recipients into opening a PDF attachment that triggers the ransomware.

In this scenario, the malware is so potent that once one employee runs the ransomware on their computer, it’s enough to spread the file-locking malware around the network, with a demand of $700 in cryptocurrency for each machine. Around 30 million devices at organizations around the globe are locked in just 24 hours. The report sets out how (Read more...)

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The State of Security authored by Anastasios Arampatzis. Read the original post at: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/report-cyber-attack-disrupt-global-economy/

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