Prashant Mali Interview in Business Standard Newpaper
Ransom-payers are also the cause of ransomware proliferation: Prashant Mali The ransom to retrieve files was reportedly $300, to be paid in virtual currency bitcoins Nikita Puri July 1, 2017 Last Updated at 21:20 IST Operations at a terminal of the country’s largest container port, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, came to a standstill earlier this week. The process of loading and unloading containers was halted as the port’s computers shut down after a major cyber attack that swept across the globe. The aggressiveness of the malware showed that such attacks were capable of bringing both corporate and government networks to a sudden halt. The ransom to retrieve files was reportedly $300, to be paid in virtual currency bitcoins. Cyber law expert Prashant Mali , also an advocate at the Bombay High Court, tells Nikita Puri how to prevent mass-scale civil disruptions that future cyber attacks can result in. Edited excerpts: First we had individual com