Threat Actors Ransomware

Threat Actors Ransomware :

Threat Actors Ransomware Practical Exercise INTRODUCTION TO SECURITY

Submission Due Date: 20th March 2023

Submission Due Time: 5:00pm

Mark: 10 marks

Online Research—Threat Actors Ransomware

Actors Objectives

Threat actors are malicious entities that are responsible for security incidents. In most scenarios, the actor falls into three categories, internal, external, or partnered. Threat actors can come in all forms, but a new favorite mode of attack is to use Ransomware to lock computers and demand users pay a ransom to get their information back.

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Define what threat actor is

• Identify the characteristics of Ransomware

• Identify steps to mitigate Ransomware

Materials Required

This lab requires the following:

• A computer with Internet access

Activity

Estimated completion time: 30 minutes

In this lab, you will search the Internet for information related to organizational secu- rity.

1. Open your web browser and go to http://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelli-

gence/threat-actors-bring-ransomware-to-industrial-sector-with-new-ver-

sion-of-killdisk/d/d-id/1327805. If you can not see the article, kindly search for

the following keyword on your browser “Threat Actors Bring Ransomware To In- dustrial Sector With New Version of KillDisk”

• Read the article and create a list of different types of Ransomware and their char- acteristics.
• Open your web browser and go to http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/col-

umnist/2016/05/07/ransomware-bad-news-s-getting-worse/83876342/. If you

cannot see the article, kindly search for the following keyword on your browser

“Ransomware? Bad news, it’s getting worse”.

• Read the article and expand your list of different types of Ransomware and their characteristics.
• Use the list to form a risk mitigation plan to stop the infection of Ransomware in a company you may or may not work for.
• Use the risk mitigation plan to create a 2-to-3-page security brief that you would submit to your Lecturer.
• Submit your work in a report format of 2 to 3 page in the Turnitin link provided for this lab.

• Please submit only Word Document.

Rubric – Marking Guide

	Poor (0)	Good (1)	Excellent (2)	Marks
Format,		Basic and par-	Clear and cor-	2
Sources, and	Basic and par-	tially correct	rect format, re-
grammar	tially correct	format, less re-	cent high-qual-
	format, non-	cent fair-qual-	ity articles,
	contemporary	ity articles,	scholarly lan-
	low-quality ar-	scholarly lan-	guage through-
	ticles, schol-	guage not used	out and thor-
	arly language	and poor atten-	ough attention
	not used and	tion to detail	to detail

	poor attention to detail Little evidence of smooth link- ing and logical linking	Few sec- tions/para- graphs smoothly and logically linked	sections/ para- graphs smoothly and logically linked
Expand your list of differ- ent types of Ransomware and their characteris- tics	Very basic Ex- pand your list of different types of Ran- somware and their characteristics.	Some basic Ex- pand your list of different types of Ran- somware and their characteristics.	Detailed and ex- cellent Expand your list of dif- ferent types of Ransomware and their characteristics.	2
Use the list	Very basic	Some basic list	Detailed and ex-	2
to form a risk	analysis of the	to form a risk	cellent list to
mitigation	issues leading	mitigation plan	form a risk miti-
plan to stop	to a real-world	to stop the in-	gation plan to
the infection	security	fection of Ran-	stop the infec-
of Ransom-	breach, the re-	somware	tion of Ransom-
ware	sponse of the		ware
	breached or-
	ganization and
	the organisa-
	tion’s remedia-
	tion of the is-
	sues
Use the risk	Very basic re-	Some basic risk	Detailed and ex-	2
mitigation	search and	mitigation plan	cellent risk mit-
plan to cre-	choose a com-	to create a 2-	igation plan to
ate a 2-to-3-	monly used	to-3-page secu-	create a 2-to-3-
page security	qualitative risk	rity brief.	page security
brief	analysis tech-		brief
	nique and ap-
	ply it to the
	chosen case.

Referencing	Little or no evi- dence of any citations or reference list	Referencing skills minimally intact, inaccu- rate and with multiple errors	Referencing skills fully intact, accurate and well-used no obvious errors	2
Total				10

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