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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. I...

India is mulling a new national strategy to strengthen the country’s cybersecurity amid allegations that Chinese intrusions may have affected operations at a key stock exchange and supply of electricity in the country’s commercial capital.

Toolkits? We need to worry about Chinese hackers March 6, 2021, 8:49 PM IST Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar is consulting editor of The Economic Times. He has frequently been a consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. A popular columnist and TV commentator, Swami has been called "Indias leading economic journalist" by Stephen Cohen of the Brookings Institution. "Swaminomics" has been appearing as a weekly column in The Times of India since 1990. In 2008, The Tim...

updated: Mar 07 2021, 08:46 ist On February 28, Recorded Future, a Massachusetts-based company that studies how state actors use the internet, put out a report that the massive power outage in Mumbai on October 12 may have been the handiwork of a Chinese cyberwarfare campaign against India, meant to signal to New Delhi what China could do at a time when the Indian army was locked in a border standoff with the Chinese army. No one, including Recorded Future, is fully sure whether the power outag...

As Chinese malware targets Indian power system and seaports, we investigate whether cyber attacks targeting the critical infrastructure of a country can be called an ‘act of war’ under the law on armed conflict

Washington: At least one connection opened by Chinese state-sponsored hackers into the network system of an Indian port is still active, even as authorities block attempts to penetrate the South Asian nation’s electrical sector, according to the US firm that alerted officials. As of Tuesday, Recorded Future could see a ‘handshake’ - indicating an exchange of traffic - between a China-linked group and an Indian maritime port, said Stuart Solomon, the firm’s chief operating officer. Recor...

The latest hacks come as the White House is considering how to respond to Russian cyber intrusions.

The targeted assets include load despatch centres of eastern, north eastern, southern and western regions besides state load despatch centres of Delhi and Telengana.

(This story originally appeared in on Mar 05, 2021)Cyber attacks by RedEcho, the actor group with China links, on India’s power infrastructure have been more widespread than previously known and the intrusive infrastructure remains active even after military de-escalation in Ladakh’s Pangong area. According to Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of Recorded Future, the Massachusetts-based enterprise security outfit that detected the intrusions, 10 Indian power sector assets and the Mumbai and Tamil ...

03:14 PM A hacker group known for ransomware attacks posted sensitive employee files online following a cyberattack at a Gallup, New Mexico, health system.   According to NBC News, the group stole sensitive employee files from Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services and posted them to its website, seemingly in an attempt to extort payment.   The files reportedly included job applications and background check authorizations that included Social Security numbers. WHY IT MATTERS   Cale...