Ransomware hits Maharashtra Police department
The country’s cyber security agency has alerted Internet users against damaging activities of a strong and globally active ransomware virus- ‘Wannacry’- that critically infects work stations and locks them remotely.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-05-14 19:12 GMT
New Delhi
In the evening, the Maharashtra Police department said it was partially hit by the ransomware. “Cyber experts have been engaged to fix the systems,” a senior police officer said.
The red-coloured ‘critical alert’ was issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), the nodal agency to combat hacking, phishing and to fortify security- related defences of the Indian Internet domain.
“It has been reported that a new ransomware named as Wannacry is spreading widely. Wannacry encrypts the files on infected Windows systems. This ransomware spreads by using a vulnerability in implementations of server message block (SMB) in Windows systems.
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