Ransomware and cybersecurity: information under the menace of attacks of data

• Autor(a) principal: Fornasier, Mateus de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Spinato, Tiago Protti, Ribeiro, Fernanda Lencina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Thesis Juris
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/thesisjuris/article/view/16739
• topic: Ransomware; Cybercrime; Regulation; Ransomware; Cibercrimes; Regulação

This article aims to address the modality of data hijacking on the internet known as ransomware.  Thus, it investigates the possibility of creating sufficient legal regulation to at least mitigate this crime. As its results, it could be found that: i) ransomware represents a major problem, as the data hijacked is currently as valuable as real money, and its use has the power to influence markets, elections and human lives in a very profound way; ii) ransom payments are made mainly by cryptocurrencies, not regulated by States, which complicates the tracking of values up to the criminal, making the punishment almost non-existent; iii) cooperation between companies, citizens and States is necessary to mitigate its occurrence, as this crime does not stick to state territorial borders, being practiced anywhere, with distant victims. Methodology: hypothetical-deductive procedure method, with qualitative approach and bibliographic-documentary research technique.