RANSOMWARE A MOJOR CYBER THREAT First of all let's understand what ransomware is. We might have seen this word being associated with terms like hacking and cybersecurity but not know what does it actually mean , ransomware as the name suggests is an attack done to extort money from the victim. In a ransomware attack what basically happens is that a malicious software is used to lock the files containing sensitive data, in order to retrieve the data the attacker demands the victim to pay ransom. Also in ransomware attacks, the victims are threatened that their data will be deleted or made publicly available if their demands are not met. If we jump back in the history of ransomware the first attack was done in 1989 where a trojan was delivered at WHO's AIDS conference using floppy disks, demanding a payment to be sent to a post office box in Panama. And from then till date there have been lots of advancements done in the code as well as in the techniques to deliver the code ,o...