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WannaCry as a Creeping Crisis
Swedish Defence University, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership (ISSL), Political Science Section, Sektionen för krishantering och internationell samverkan.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5657-9697
2021 (English)In: Understanding the Creeping Crisis / [ed] Boin, Arjen; Ekengren, Magnus; Rhinard, Mark, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, p. 37-50Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter deepens our understanding of cyber crises with the help of the creeping crisis concept. The chapter shows that although emerging technologies make malicious activities in cyberspace more sophisticated, vulnerabilities enabling such threats have been inherent in cyber assets for a very long time in the form of creeping crises. The question is: was WannaCry the acute crisis or just a precursor event to a bigger explosion? It is argued that the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 should be considered a wake-up call. The chapter demonstrates how the cyber threat was lurking in the background, gradually evolving in time and space in a non-linear fashion and receiving varying levels of attention.

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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 37-50
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creeping crisis, cyber-attacks, cyber security, WannaCry, IT security
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Information Systems
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Statsvetenskap med inriktning mot krishantering och internationell samverkan
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-10498DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-70692-0_3ISBN: 978-3-030-70691-3 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-70692-0 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-10498DiVA, id: diva2:1616476
Available from: 2021-12-02 Created: 2021-12-02 Last updated: 2021-12-02Bibliographically approved

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