Accusations of sabotage by Chinese malware agencies on India’s power grid started flying again with a report by Somerville-based Recorded Future citing the same and Maharashtra government ordering an investigation into whether or not the Mumbai outage in October 2020 was due to any Chinese sabotage. Cyber intelligence firm, Recorded Future in latest report said, China-linked Group RedEcho targeted the Indian power sector amid heightened border tensions. “Since early 2020, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group observed a large increase in suspected targeted intrusion activity against Indian organisations from Chinese state-sponsored groups,” the report said. Recorded Future further said ten Indian power sector organisations, including four of the five Regional Load Despatch Centres (RLDC) are targets in a concerted campaign against India’s critical infrastructure.
The Ministry of Power on Monday said there is no impact on operations of Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) due to any malware attack and that prompt actions are taken on advisories issued against such threats.
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The Union Ministry of Power on Monday brushed off a report linking the Mumbai power outage in October last year to a Chinese cyber attack.
On October 12, Mumbai witnessed massive power outages due to grid failure, hampering train services and hitting the stuttering economic activity hard.
The malware has various infrastructure impacts, ranging from simply turning off power distribution channels to more serious damage to equipment. In this image, the sun shines over towers carrying electical lines August 30, 2007 in South San Francisco, California.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The Statement
In a statement, the power ministry said, An email was received from CERT-In on 19th November, 2020 on the threat of malware called Shadow Pad at some control centres of POSOCO. Accordingly, action has been taken to address these threats.
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Did Chinese Hackers Cause Mumbai s Power Failure in October?
A report by the US-based firm Recorded Future says since the escalation tensions between the two countries at the LAC, state-backed Chinese hacker groups have targeted the Indian power grid system through malware.
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World01/Mar/2021
New Delhi: The massive power outage in Mumbai in October 2020 may have been the result of a Chinese cyber campaign against India, timed as a ‘show of force’ warning to New Delhi about what could happen if the country pushed its border claims too vigorously in the context of the standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh.