Ransomware may even threaten your life

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Ransomware attacks around the world has become worse in recent times. Earlier, computers containing sensitive files and documents are the only target of hackers. But now, the scenario got changed, because the situation may cause caution to life. And also, it will happen through the water that we drink.

Ransomware- a malware designed and developed to infect the targeted user's files by locking it and encrypting it. To decrypt the files, some ransom has to be paid by the user. Now, it has become more, after trump's inauguration attack. Researchers from World wide are working towards this to get resolved. Among them, Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology(GIT) demonstrated their research work which lefts an warning to all nation around the world. They worked on a particular Ransomware called 'Dubbed logiclocker' in an simulated environment to gain the access of automated water plant connecting metro cities. And there research gets succeeded. But this is not an happiest news, because this malware is designed to kill human beings through water.

This malware has been presented at 2017 RSA conference in San francisco, which allowed the researchers to alter the Programmable logic controller's(PLC's) of Industrial control plants. PLC's are the tiny computers which controls critical Industrial Control System and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) infrastructure as such water treatment plants in a metro city.

As a result, it have fake results to the researchers and allowed them to alter amount of chlorine in it. Hopefully, this not yet happened till now. But there is a possibility to happen in future. As a developing country, we too have the possibility to have those attacks.

To avoid these attacks, researchers suggested some techniques as such protecting the password of SDACA and changing the passwords occasionally may help the users a little. But equipping regularly with respect to updates may deserve safe and secured connection.