International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences Vol. 9 , No. 7, July, 2019, E-ISSN: 2 22 2 -6990 © 2019 HRMARS 915 Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/publication-ethics Ransomware a Concealed Weapon of Cyber Extortion: The Beginning Unfolded Haitham Hilal Al Hajri, Badar Mohammed Al Mughairi, Asif Mahbub Karim, Md. Nasiruzzaman, Mohammad Imtiaz Hossain To Link this Article: http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i7/6190 DOI: 10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i7/6190 Received: 14 May 2019, Revised: 18 June 2019, Accepted: 29 June 2019 Published Online: 26 July 2019 In-Text Citation: (Hajri, Mughairi, Karim, Nasiruzzaman, & Hossain, 2019) To Cite this Article: Hajri, H. H. Al, Mughairi, B. M. Al, Karim, A. M., Nasiruzzaman, M., & Hossain, M. I. (2019). Ransomware a Concealed Weapon of Cyber Extortion: The Beginning Unfolded. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(7), 915–922. Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (www.hrmars.com) This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Vol. 9, No. 7, 2019, Pg. 915 – 922 http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/IJARBSS JOURNAL HOMEPAGE