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.
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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.
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MUMBAI: A preliminary report submitted by the Maharashtra police cyber cell on the massive power outage across Mumbai in October last year has suggested that the incident could be cyber sabotage, said state home minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday.
Deshmukh said a probe committee has found evidence of suspicious entry into the transmission system through servers of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB). The report was submitted to the state government on Monday, said Deshmukh.
The minister’s statement came hours after reports emerged of a possible Chinese cyber attack on India’s power grid. The minister said a reputed, US-based company Recorded Future has referred to Chinese entities mounting a strike through the net on Indian electricity infrastructure, leading to cascading power failure in Mumbai. The report by Recorded Future, a firm which studies internet usage by state agencies, named a Chinese state-sponsored g
Human error, not Chinese cyber attack , says Union Power Minister on Mumbai 2020 blackout By Amit Kumar | Updated: Mar 02, 2021 17:49 IST
New Delhi [India], March 2 (ANI): Union Power Minister R K Singh on Tuesday said that Mumbai power outage of October 2020 was caused by human error and there is no evidence to prove that it was trigged due to a cyber attack by China.
Speaking to ANI, Singh said, Two teams investigated the power outage and reported that the outage was caused by human error and not due to cyber attack. One of the teams submitted that cyber attacks did happen but they were not linked to the Mumbai grid failure,