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India is mulling a new strategy to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity after a report released by a United States-based firm suggested a Chinese cyber campaign targeted India’s power grid, resulting in a power blackout that brought India’s financial capital Mumbai to a standstill in October,
Bloomberg reported on Monday.
The Ministry of Power had confirmed that it was aware of the Chinese cyber campaign to use malware to target India’s power network. However, it said that there was no no data breach due to the incidents.
Speaking about India’s cybersecurity strategy, National Cyber Security Coordinator Rajesh Pant told
Updated Mar 01, 2021 · 10:44 pm File photo: People Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers during military disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) at the India-China border in Ladakh. | AFP/Indian Army
A report released by a United States private cybersecurity firm has suggested that a Chinese cyber campaign targeted India’s power grid, months after the Galwan valley clash in June, in which soldiers from both the countries were killed.
Recorded Future’s report raised questions about a possible link between the clash and a power blackout that brought India’s financial capital Mumbai to a standstill in October, according to
The New York Times. Indian media had reported that authorities suspected that a malware attack had caused the outage.