Security plays an extremely important role for users in terms of digital India, the Internet, and the IoT era. Every user is now getting access to data and moving towards digitization in today's world. Due to the transfer of information everywhere in the organization due to processing vast amounts of knowledge, it faces numerous cyber-malware problems. Various sectors are adopting more technology to improve communications and infrastructure, and the cyber threat to these networks is growing in parallel. Cyber-malware and its class is ransomware. When it spreads, it locks the machine and encrypts it. Its impact performs various functions, such as confidential data theft, data misuse, and unauthorized access. The goal of this paper is to explore methods to counter ransomware attacks. This paper provides an understanding of cyber malware, why cyber malware is chosen as ransomware, and the attack process of cyber malware.