China steps up cyber-attacks after disengagement from Pangong lake
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New Delhi, March 13: Indian government organisations such as Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) and National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) have reported that Chinese hackers have attempted to infiltrate the countrys cyberspace after troops from the two neighbours disengaged from Pangong Lake in eastern Ladakh.
On February 28, the Red Echo group targeted NTPC Infrastructure with a malware that it had planted, establishing a connection that fed into the hacker s server, as reported by Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm.
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In Mumbai, Anil Deshmukh said a preliminary Cyber Cell report on the power outage had been handed over to the State Energy Ministry. “State-sponsored” Chinese hacker groups had targeted various Indian power centres, the Union Power Ministry said on Monday, but added that these groups have been thwarted after government cyber agencies warned it about their activities. While the government refused to confirm or deny a
New York Times report, based on a U.S. cyber security firm’s claim that the Mumbai power outage in October 2020 was part of a coordinated cyber attack by China, it said it has suffered “no data breach” as a result of the threat.