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🔆International Counter Ransomware Initiative

✅International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI), will enhance “collective resilience” to ransomware, disrupt attacks, and counter illicit finance so as to underpin the ransomware ecosystem.

✅Ransomware is malware designed to deny a user or organization access to files on their computer.

✅CRI will establish an international counter-ransomware task force led by Australia to “coordinate resilience, disruption and counter illicit finance activities”.

India will establish a dedicated counter ransomware platform, Malwarekosh, “to support, analyse, share and collaborate on counter ransomware activities”.

✅It is a grouping of 36 countries, including India, and the European Union.