Cyberattack Panic Amid India-pakistan Tensions: Atms To Be Closed? What Is 'dance Of The Hillary' Ransomware

Misinformation is moving rampant crossed societal media, including WhatsApp, which is seeing a caller "cyber attack" being shared. A viral connection is being circulated claiming that owed to an ongoing ransomware onslaught by Pakistan, each ATMs successful nan state will beryllium closed for 2-3 days. The connection besides mentions thing called "Dance of nan Hillary", a video that erstwhile opened, tin format your mobile owed to a virus. 

All this is clone accusation and has already been debunked by PIB earlier. People who person these messages are advised not to judge successful them and to refrain from sharing and spreading misinformation. 

This connection has been wide circulated earlier arsenic well, and has been debunked successful nan past, too. ATMs successful nan state will proceed to run normally, and online transactions are not astatine risk.

However, successful ray of nan caller tensions and nan conflict betwixt India and Pakistan, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will soon beryllium assessing the cybersecurity preparedness of India’s financial institutions. Banks successful nan state person already been asked to enactment connected precocious alert and fortify their integer information measures arsenic India's conflict pinch Pakistan escalates. 

The gathering pinch banks will hap successful nan evening connected Friday, 9 May successful nan aftermath of heightened concerns for captious banking infrastructure.

Until then, workout be aware and don't stock immoderate unverified messages.  

Published on: May 9, 2025 12:25 PM IST