The Union health ministry has asked the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-In under the the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to look into the reported attempt of hacking of its website allegedly by a Russian hacker group.Cyber security experts from CloudSEK have claimed that Russian hacker group Phoenix targeted the website and managed to get access to the ministrys Health Management Information System portal and has details of all the hospitals of India, employees and and physicians data.
A spear phishing attempt that targeted many organisations was discovered by CloudSEK experts. The campaign involved a certain type of message that appeared to be sent by CEOs or superiors but may actually be a scam.
The data, including email address, name, screen name/username, account creation date and follower count was offered for 8 forum credits on a famous hacker forum, that amounts to $200,000, according to the team from AI-based cyber-security firm CloudSEK.
The data, including email address, name, screen name/username, account creation date and follower count was offered for 8 forum credits on a famous hacker forum, that amounts to $200,000, according to the team from AI-based cyber-security firm CloudSEK.
The attacks on the Indian government intensified to the point where it became the country that was most frequently targeted in this sector in 2022.This