Awareness Learning Analysis of Malware and Ransomware in Bitcoin

Abstract

Ransomware is a subset of malware in which it typically enables cyberextortion for financial gain. It is a serious and growing cyberthreat that often affects an individual’s privacy. It has recently made headlines for border attacks on businesses. It results in loss of sensitive information, disruption, regular operations, and damage to an organization’s reputation. It spreads through phishing emails that contain malicious attachments or through drive-by downloading. It occurs when a user visits an infected website unknowingly and then malware is downloaded and installed without the acknowledgment of the user. This paper provides a brief of ransomware’s history and as well as preventive measures and solutions to network security, data privacy, and menace of ransomware that challenge computer.