Reference : When Cryptographic Ransomware Poses Cyber Threats: Ethical Challenges and Proposed Sa...

	Document type :	Scientific congresses, symposiums and conference proceedings : Unpublished conference
	Discipline(s) :	Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
	Focus Areas :	Security, Reliability and Trust
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51240

Title :	When Cryptographic Ransomware Poses Cyber Threats: Ethical Challenges and Proposed Safeguards for Cybersecurity Researchers
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Botes, Wilhelmina Maria [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > IRiSC >]
	Lenzini, Gabriele [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > IRiSC >]
Publication date :	10-Jun-2022
Peer reviewed :	Yes
On invitation :	Yes
Audience :	International
Event name :	The 1st International Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security (EthiCS 2022) Co-located with the 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Event date :	10 June 2022
Event organizer :	IEEE
Event place (city) :	Genoa
Event country :	Italy
Keywords :	[en] Ransomware ; Research ethics ; Cyber weapons
Abstract :	[en] Cryptographic ransomware, a malware capable of destroying data, is a serious threat if used against providers of critical infrastructures such as healthcare, energy supply chains, banking services, and transport systems. Used as such, ransomware may qualify as cyber weapon, but the current discussion around cyber and information warfare is not sufficiently legally regulated. This delegates the safe governance thereof to the application of ethical principles but leaves researchers working on ransomware in doubt about the double-use nature of their work and what code of conduct to follow. Although some existing biomedical research ethical principles have been repurposed for ICT research, in the context of recent threats posed by ransomware attacks, these efforts need an urgent rethink, especially when it involves the research of cybersecurity researchers dealing specifically with ransomware. This paper does not offer solutions, but rather describes the complexity, nature and extent of ethical challenges raised by cybersecurity research and invites the cybersecurity research community to enter into active discussions around the need to consider the development of an appropriate research ethics framework in the domain of cybersecurity.
Research centres :	Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Other
Funders :	Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)—IS/14717072 “Deceptive Patterns Online (Decepticon)”; and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Networks, Legality Attentive Data Scientists (LEADS) under Grant Agreement ID 956562
Name of the research project :	Decepticon and LeADS
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51240
Other URL :	https://ethics-workshop.github.io/2022/#:~:text=The%201st%20International%20Workshop%20on%20Ethics%20in%20Computer,data%2C%20thus%20is%20subject%20to%20ethics%20considerations%20%E2%80%A6
FnR project :	FnR ; FNR14717072 > Gabriele Lenzini > DECEPTICON > Deceptive Patterns Online > 01/06/2021 > 31/05/2024 > 2020

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