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Image for representation. | Damien Meyer/ AFP 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 ....
Offence could well be the best defence in cyber warfare Photo: iStockPremium Share Via Early last week, The New York Times reported on a study by cyber security firm Recorded Future, which claimed that Chinese malware was flowing into the control systems that manage electric supply across India. It went on to say that a massive power outage in Mumbai last October, which sent economic activity in the city into a tailspin for some hours, could have been set off by Chinese state-backed hackers. Immediately afterwards came the news that Telangana power utilities TS Transco and TS Genco had successfully thwarted cyber attacks from China that targeted at least 40 electricity substations. ....
Recorded Future could see a handshake , which indicates exchange of traffic, between a China-linked group and a maritime port in India as of Tuesday. ....
Will seek CBI probe into Mumbai power outage: BJP after Nitin Raut s cyber attack remark Energy Minister Raut had on Monday said that power outage in the city on October 12 last year was a cyber-attack and a sabotage . Share Via Email | A+A A- By PTI MUMBAI: BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar on Wednesday said he will write a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a CBI probe into the alleged cyber attack from China that caused massive power outage in Mumbai last year, as claimed by Maharashtra minister Nitin Raut. Mungantiwar made the remarks in the state Legislative Assembly. ....
Telangana: Power Utilities Detected and Removed Chinese Malware This provides more evidence to suggest that the power outage in Mumbai in October last year was the result of Chinese cyber intrusions. Representative image. Photo: Reuters World03/Mar/2021 New Delhi: Power utilities in Telangana removed malware that they spotted after being alerted by the Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In), raising further suspicions about cyber intrusions by Chinese-backed hackers targeting India’s power grid system. According to news agency PTI, a heightened state of alertness would continue for some more days. “We noticed some malware. Immediately, we erased that. We have taken all the preventive steps. Absolutely, there is no problem,” a senior official told PTI. ....