Ransomware & Cybercrime

Ransomware & Cybercrime is the second book written by Andy Jenkinson, Group CEO of Cybersec Innovation Partners, a Fellow of The Cyber Theory Institute and who was voted in 2022 by The European Institute of Risk, as one of the 30 Leading Global experts.

This book provides the reader with compelling evidence of how most of the Digital Intrusions and cyber attacks occur. 

The author is a specialist in the Public Key Infrastructure and Domain Name System areas of security. These areas are often taken for granted, overlooked, and misunderstood.

Ransomware & Cybercrime follows on from the first best-selling book by the author, titled Stuxnet to Sunburst, 20 years of Digital Exploitation. A third book already in manuscript form titled; Digital Blood on Their Hands is an expose which includes deep insights into the Cyberwar that was the precursor to the Invasion by Russia into Ukraine.

Ransomware and Cybercrime was written following extensive research of over one thousand cyberattacks over the last three years. It includes SolarWinds, Travelex, CNA Insurance, Colonial Pipeline, Oldsmar, easyJet and many others.

The book goes into some depth of how, in 2018 HTTP was superseded and replaced with HTTPS, the S standing for Secure. It covers the developments and advancement of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and how the two combined, perversely made it easier to not only identify exposed and exploitable Internet positions, but also how to gain Access into company’s networks and enterprises to exploit them.

Ransomware & Cybercrime demonstrates how cyber attacks, in all forms, Intellectual Property theft, Personable Identifiable Information theft, Living off the Land, Man in The Middle Attacks, Water Hole Attacks, Code Injection and many more all require one thing – ACCESS and how that is being achieved.

Much of Andy Jenkinson’s work has subsequently found audience and replication by government agencies, The White House and EU Commission who are now addressing DNS abuse and attacks. The year 2018 will go down in history as being the year that simple identification of Not Secure domains, subdomains and DNS positions made a cyber criminals reconnaissance even simpler than before, and then to exploit knowing controls are lax. 

The book evidences how domain numbers over the last 20 years are directly aligned with the increase in cybercrime, there is a direct correlation between the upward trends.  

Ransomware & Cybercrime concludes that cyber criminals are Not Sophisticated, as everybody is led to believe. They do not need to understand PKI or DNS, they simply exploit the fact their victims do not. All they need to know is how to identify exposed, Insecure and Not Secure Domains, PKI and DNS positions to launch readily available attacks which result in Ransomware & Cybercrime.