Ransomware attacks that have arisen recently during COVID-19
1. Introduction
Ransomware is a kind of disruptive malicious attack which encrypts the offending files and asks for a huge amount of payments back from the victimized party to decrypt files. Internet-connected systems always vulnerable to be getting attacked by any kind of malware. But compared to the other times, the COVID-19 period makes the world hard to involve in regular activities. Then the most attackers take this as a good opportunity to spread their nasty doings since the world spends their whole time recovering the pandemic rather than the other attacks.
2. Recent Attacks faced by globally recognized Organizations.
Honda Manufactures were affected globally by the snake Ransomware.
One of the ransomware attacks occurred recently during this world grieved epidemic was a snake ransomware attack which was suffered by the “Honda” providers. “Snake”, which developed using the cross-platform supportive language called Golang, is the newly added ransomware to the well-known list of malware in early 2020. (WALTER, 2020)It was a kind of dangerous attack which aim total manufacturing control schemes of the target company(Alex Scroxton, 2020). All the infected files are modified and saved by using the extension with random features. This causes it to be hard to recognize a particular attack by using the file name(Alex Scroxton, 2020). This attack terminates the whole network process rather than considering individual files. Apart from the normal behavior of the other ransomware, this includes lots of enhanced features. This totally interrupts the enterprise's central processing tools and their utilities. And, unlikely conventional ransomware this instructed sufferers to connect directly via emails(Alex Scroxton, 2020). This is effective and dangerous, compared to the other attacks. Such that it apparently primitive, but actively performs a vast number of processes to completely lock down the manufacturing systems which has not been experienced by the directing factories previously(WALTER, 2020). The researchers have found the unorganized databases including machinery’s internal network details and the critical information of dealers and the customers relate to the logging credentials and server monitoring data has been exposed to the public internet due to the fact that was not secured with the proper security mechanisms(Ilascu, 2020). All the IT networks attached to the global Honda car manufacturers located in Japan and Europe were affected by this attack. And this malware caused severe damage to the Honda financial progress as well as the customer demand instabilities, drastically increasing the impact of the snake attack. (Alex Scroxton, 2020). In order to prevent the spread of the attack furthermore, they might wait for a long time by suspending the vehicle production of Honda around the world. One of the japan security authorities got the responsibility to recover or reduce this hard impact which cooperated access to its IT network systems and they attempt to reinstate the functionalities of all the manufacturing and sales activities.(Alex Scroxton, 2020) Since this is a critical situation and the environment in the whole process of the Honda dealers, they decided to maintain regular surveillances to resist the further cyber-attacks due to this made them unstable financially as well as socially.
