Visible to the public Cyber ethics and cyber crime: A deep dwelved study into legality, ransomware, underground web and bitcoin wallet

TitleCyber ethics and cyber crime: A deep dwelved study into legality, ransomware, underground web and bitcoin wallet
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsUpadhyaya, R., Jain, A.
Conference Name2016 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA)
ISBN Number978-1-5090-1666-2
KeywordsAlgorithm design and analysis, bitcoin, bitcoin wallet, composability, Computer crime, Computers, consumer confidence, crypto virus, cryptographic protocols, cryptography, cryptolocker ransomware, CTB locker, cyber crime, cyber ethics, cyber Laws, cyber wars, darknet, e-commerce, electronic commerce, Electronic mail, Encryption, Human Behavior, Information systems, Internet, invasive software, legality, locker bot, Malware, Metrics, pubcrawl, ransomware, Resiliency, The Dark Net, Tor, trojan horse, Trojan horses, underground Web, Web threats
Abstract

Future wars will be cyber wars and the attacks will be a sturdy amalgamation of cryptography along with malware to distort information systems and its security. The explosive Internet growth facilitates cyber-attacks. Web threats include risks, that of loss of confidential data and erosion of consumer confidence in e-commerce. The emergence of cyber hack jacking threat in the new form in cyberspace is known as ransomware or crypto virus. The locker bot waits for specific triggering events, to become active. It blocks the task manager, command prompt and other cardinal executable files, a thread checks for their existence every few milliseconds, killing them if present. Imposing serious threats to the digital generation, ransomware pawns the Internet users by hijacking their system and encrypting entire system utility files and folders, and then demanding ransom in exchange for the decryption key it provides for release of the encrypted resources to its original form. We present in this research, the anatomical study of a ransomware family that recently picked up quite a rage and is called CTB locker, and go on to the hard money it makes per user, and its source C&C server, which lies with the Internet's greatest incognito mode-The Dark Net. Cryptolocker Ransomware or the CTB Locker makes a Bitcoin wallet per victim and payment mode is in the form of digital bitcoins which utilizes the anonymity network or Tor gateway. CTB Locker is the deadliest malware the world ever encountered.

URLhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7813706/
DOI10.1109/CCAA.2016.7813706
Citation Keyupadhyaya_cyber_2016