Abhijit Tripathi
Abhijit Tripathy is a cybersecurity consultant and digital forensics expert (CISSP, CISA, CCISO), advisor to ANA Cyber Forensic Pvt. Ltd., and guest expert on Prabh Nair's cybersecurity podcasts.
1
APPEARANCES
1
PODCASTS
Sep 17, 2026
Prabh NairHOST
Could you start by explaining about what is Akira ransomware and how it works and what can be the characteristics and what is the history behind that? Sure.
Abhijit TripathiGUEST
When we talk about Akira, because there's a lot of things about this particular ransomware, but we'll just keep it brief, but we'll try to cover most of the things about it.
Abhijit TripathiGUEST
So when you talk about Akira, you see, if you're talking about the name itself, Akira is a Japanese word for intelligent.
Abhijit TripathiGUEST
Because you see, another thing is the first mechanism which is used by this ransomware is dual extortion.
Abhijit TripathiGUEST
If you ask me that, what are the different types of extortion? So initially there was pure extortion, multi extortion.
22 MINS LATER
Prabh NairHOST
You mean to say because it's very important for us to understand how this attack is actually origin because origin is very important.