The government responded in the Lok Sabha on the increasing Ransomware attacks in India, said – many steps are being taken in defense

Many attacks of ransomware are happening continuously in India. For which the government is taking many important steps. While giving information in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra said that the government is aware of cyber security threats and is taking several important steps to deal with such threats. He added that the ransomware ecosystem is evolving with the help of a variety of attack campaigns. The Union Minister has given this information to the House in a written reply to a member.

The home minister was asked whether the government is aware of the threats posed by cyber criminals using dark net, metaverse, deep fakes, ransomware and toolkit based disinformation for campaigns. In response, he said that the government recognizes cyber security threats. Several steps are being taken to deal with them. Giving information, the Union Minister said that cyber hackers are taking help of all vulnerabilities, remote access service and phishing to gain access to the infrastructure.

Apart from this, he said that the National Crime Records Bureau publishes statistical data on crimes in Crime in India, but NCRB does not have specific data in this regard. More than 39,200 police officers from States and Union Territories are registered and more than 19,550 certificates have been issued through the portal.