Cyber Attack on Many Countries of the World, Ransom Sought
- By IBTN News Bureau --
- 12 May 2017
There have been cyber attacks on some organizations in many countries of the world including Europe.
After these cyber attacks the computers stopped working. Many affected organizations have shared screenshots of computers to be locked and asking for bitcoin.
There is news of the RainSamware cyber attacks in Britain, USA, China, Russia, Spain, Italy, Vietnam and many other countries.
Cyber experts are looking at these events together.
A cyber security researcher tweeted that he has detected 36,000 cases of asking for bidcoin in this return. These are made from Vanakrai or its similar names. He said, "It is very big."
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) has been severely affected by the rainsamware.
Hackers have targeted the UK health-related computers.
NHS employees shared screenshots of Vanakrai program.
According to the news agency AP, many hospitals in England say that they are having trouble opening their computers. The computer which has been hacked, is showing a message on opening, which states that if you want to recover the file then you will have to pay the money.
RainSamware is a computer virus that threatens to destroy computer files. It is threatened that if you have to save your files then the fees will be paid.
These viruses encrypt the files and videos present in the computer and can be decrypted only after giving them a ransom.
The particular thing is that the deadline is set to pay the ransom and if the money is not paid on time then the ransom amount increases.
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