Digital Defence: Battle Against Ransomware Attacks In India
- IJLLR Journal
- Sep 20
- 1 min read
Janani R, School of Excellence in Law, TNDALU
ABSTRACT
“Cybercrime is the greatest threat to every company in the world.”
Ransomware attacks in general is considered to be a significant threat to the organizations as well as the individuals across the world. This is due to the advent growth of technology and the increase in use of the internet by almost majority of the population worldwide. These attacks generally involve the employment of malware by the attackers in order to encrypt the critical data and demands ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key. This malicious software is typically spread through phishing emails that pretends to be from trusted source, malicious links, pop-up ads, social engineering tactics, or exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities. There are certain cases in which the victims even after paying the demanded ransom will not be provided with the decryption key. This as a result leads to severe impacts like the loss of revenue, financial loss, business disruption, and reputational damage.
Keywords: ransomware, malicious, exploit, decrypt, extort.
