BHOPAL : A research scholar of MANIT was asked to pay money by a hacker, Ransomware, to recover the encrypted data on his laptop in a first case of its kind registered in the state cyber crime cell. According to Dell Corporation, in the year 2015, around 6.25 lakh computers were infected by the virus.
The special DGP cyber crime Rajendra Kumar informed that the research scholar Chandra Bhushan Tripathi was surfing the internet. During the search, he received a message from hacker Ransomware asking to pay the money through Bitcoin and to get his data decrypted.
The cyber police have registered the case under section 8/6 section 66 IT Act, against unknown persons.
It is also informed that, while using internet, if one’s files, pictures, videos and documents get encrypted and the machine starts displaying the message ‘your personal files are encrypted’ and seeks payment through bitcoin to decrypted the data, it indicates that the one has been trapped in a cyber crime.
Ransomware is a type of malware.
hen one surfs malicious websites, a type of Trojan installs automatically. The second type installs when the one receives an e-mail from an unknown addressee, which is linked to malicious websites. Sometimes the user himself installs the Ransomware taking it to be useful software.
The cyber police have suggested to complain the matter about the cyber crime and not to pay ransom to the hackers. The Dell corporation reports claims that in the year 2015, in entire world 6.25 lakh computers had been infected by the internet viruses, in which 2.50 lakh were from USA.
