On Monday, June 6th, 2017, Japanese authorities arrested a 14 year old boy in Osaka for allegedly creating and distributing a Ransomware virus. This is the first ever arrest of this kind in the country which related to Ransomware crime. This boy is a secondary school student in Osaka Prefecture. He has been charged with…

As the name suggests, Ransomware is a piece of malware that doesn’t allow the victim to have an access to his data and the only way to have access to the files is by paying a ransom against it. On May 12th, 2017 we witnessed the biggest cyber attack by Wannacry Ransomware which affected various…