The first case is about Coca-Cola. According to Bracken (2022), Stormous, a Russian-language ransomware organisation, claims to have stolen 161GB of data from Coca-Cola and is offering to sell the alleged data for 1.65 Bitcoin (about $64,000). The second case is about NHS. On Friday, May 12, 2017, the NHS was forced to a halt for many days related to the WannaCry ransomware. NHS England claimed that at least eighty of the 236 trusts were impacted and 603 primary care and other NHS organisations, including 595 GP practises. The Department, NHS England, and the National Crime Agency claimed that no NHS organisation paid the ransom. The Department, however, does not know how much service interruption costs the NHS, despite estimates reaching £92 million (Acronis, 2020).
According to Kaspersky (2022), everyone should follow these
steps to prevent ransomware attacks. Firstly, keep antivirus, browsers, and
operating systems up to date. Secondly, never click on hazardous links, do not
provide personal information, never open suspicious email attachments, and do
not use unknown USB sticks. Finally, always use VPN services while connecting
to public Wi-Fi networks. To complete The National Cyber Security Centre
(NCSC), companies must make regular backups, online(cloud) and offline (keep
offsite) and provide security education and awareness training to their
employees (NCSC, 2021).
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