Ransomware hits Maharashtra Police department

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.