To combat with prevailing situation of Ransomware in over 100 countries. In India and in Gujarat different measures by a team of technical experts from IT Information Technology field are taken.
As a proactive step, today in Ahmedabad in Police Headquarter at Police Commissioner Officer a Training Session was held for Incharge of Computer Section of various government department.
A Cyber Army was formed by Technical Experts from Police Department.
On the other side, there are reports of computers of government offices were affected due to current cyber attack.
In Navsari district, 120 computers were affected due to cyber attack. Data from the computer disk was destroyed. Systems were reformatted.
Computer Incharge of Navsari advised how systems could be protected by keeping antivirus updated and activated in the system. He suggested to use only licensed software and told to keep away from pirated software. If at all any updates on software required to be downloaded, they should be downloaded from authentic websites only.
At Bardoli Mamlatdar office in Surat, 9 computers were down with Ransomware software.
There were reports that in some Online Buyers paid upto $50,535 to bit coins to get back their data.
One Ahmedabad based ethical hacker said that if your computer is affected by such cyber attack, you know the origin but you do not know the destination, where your money goes.
