CERT-In Warns Of ‘Royal Ransomware’ Virus Attacking India’s Critical Sectors

Indian citizens and organisations have been alerted about the Royal Ransomware virus by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In).

This malicious malware targets key infrastructure industries, such as manufacturing, communications, healthcare, and education, as well as individuals, encrypting their files and requesting payment in Bitcoin to prevent the release of private information to the public.

The CERT-In advisory claims that the RDP (remote desktop protocol) abuse, phishing emails, malicious downloads, and other forms of social engineering are all ways the Royal Ransomware infection spreads. This virus was discovered for the first time in January 2022, and it started to spread around September of last year, at which point the US government began to issue advisories against its expansion.

The report also disclosed that the threat actors employ a number of strategies to trick victims into installing remote access malware as part of callback phishing. In order to prevent recovery, the virus encrypts the data and deletes shadow copies once it has infected the system.&n

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