Cyber Attack

Your task is to produce a report based upon recent of cyber-attack. They should describe these attacks and their solutions at a deep, technical level and contextualize them from data, privacy, ethical, legal, and social perspectives.

Choose a relatively recent (within the last 5 years) high-profile cyber-attack. This could be an attack on an organisation (Government or business) in the U.K. or abroad.
Task
Based on information gained from media and peer-reviewed sources, produce a report which includes the following sections:
1. Introduction
Introduction to topic, brief background of the type of attack carried out and related incidents.
2. Technical Aspects
Discuss the technical aspects of the attack, the hardware and software required to carry out the attack, types of traffic sent, attack methods, for example, methods of footprinting and reconnaissance, social engineering techniques used, insider attacks, denial of service, etc., protocols used, software vulnerabilities, details of exploits and vulnerabilities. This may comprise several subsections depending on the nature of the attack.
3. Privacy and Security
Discuss the impact on privacy to the organisation(s). What data was compromised and the impact on the organisation and other individuals/organisations. Discuss the tools and techniques that could be used to enforce security of the data and traffic in relation to the attack being analysed.
4. Penetration testing/Ethical Hacking
Discuss the attack from a Penetration/Security testing standpoint. Identify any security testing the organisation carried out prior to the attack. If no such information is available, provide a high-level methodology for penetration testing the organisations IT infrastructure.
5. Incident Response and Disaster recovery
Discuss the methods used to respond to the attack and compare and contrast the approaches taken to best practices found in the literature. What impact did the organisations strategy have to mitigate the effects of the attack? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches taken?
6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Discuss the legal and ethical issues caused by the attack and the implications for the organisation in question and any other individuals and organisations affected.
7. Conclusions and recommendations
Based on your findings, provide your conclusions and recommendations and the methods used to contain and manage its impact. You should refer to industry best practices and peer-reviewed standards/papers to justify your recommendations.