[kictanet] Malware-as-a-service (MaaS)

[florence mwangangi]

A very interesting read indeed!!
With the rapid technological developments in ict,  the possibility of a
legalised malware-as-a-service market is real. As it is today such a
service is outlawed in Kenya under the Kenya Information & Communication
Act (KICA). Nonetheless our cyber security agencies must be buyers of the
service at the darkness market for purposes of finding ways to deal  with
the vice  - the irony of technology!!!

On 6 Jun 2017 05:56, "Admin CampusCiti via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> From SaaS to PaaS to MaaS..
>
> In May 2017, a new form of ransomware called WannaCry affected more than
> 230,000 personal and business computers in over 150 countries. The
> ransomware affected organizations, such as Deutsche Bahn AG (a German
> railway company), NHS Scotland (the publicly funded healthcare system in
> Scotland), National Health Service of England, Saudi Telecom Company, and
> FedEx (an international courier delivery services company). The ransomware
> attack is now estimated to be one of the largest global security incidents
> in the history of the Web.
>
> WannaCry is based on the security exploit EternalBlue developed by the
> U.S. National Security Agency. WannaCry was released by the hacker group
> The Shadow Brokers. The Shadow Brokers announced that they provide
> cybercriminals with the opportunity to purchase paid subscription services
> allowing them to access various exploits and data stolen from important
> organizations. The hacking group claims to have data from Russian, North
> Korean, Iranian, and Chinese nuclear weapons, as well as data from the
> Swift banking network. Thus, shortly, we may witness the increasing
> popularity of a new Web-based service, namely, malware-as-a-service. The
> purpose of this article is to examine the history of malware-as-a-service
> (Section 2), the ecosystem of malware-as-a-service (Section 3), and the
> state of the art and the future of malware-as-a-service (Section 4).
> Finally, we draw a conclusion (Section 5).
>
> Read on:-
> http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/malware-as-a-service/?utm_source=
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> Resources)
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