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Since Friday evening RAMSOMWRE has also spread in India. Till now this virus has affected more than 50,000 computers in about 75 countries.

·        In India Andhra Pradesh over 100 computers are affected by this virus attack & that is on AP police. 

  • ·        In India, a section of computers at Andhra Pradesh’s police departments were hacked. Computers in 18 police units in Chittoor, Krishna, Guntur, Visakhatpatnam and Srikakulam districts were affected.
  • · Confirming the attack, Gulshan Rai, Director General of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), said: "We held an assessment meeting today and have found that 102 systems of Andhra Police have been infected with ransomware, particularly those using the Windows operating system."
  • ·     This malware going by the name of WanaCry thought emails and prevent users from accessing their own information unless paid said the amount.

·  Once inside the system, the attackers install a rootkit, which enables them to download the software to encrypt the data. The malware encrypts the files. A request for $600 in Bitcoin is displayed along with the wallet and the ransom demand increases over time,” Altaf Halde, Managing Director Kaspersky Lab (South Asia), told IANS.
  • ·        The seeds of the massive cyber-attack were sown by a mysterious hacking group “Shadow Brokers” in April when it leaked a hacking tool called “Eternal Blue” developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA).



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